I knew him slightly, and despite his terrible illness for years, he kept his wits pretty well until the last year or so, when he needed a nurse.
Funny thing is, I have it from a reliable source that he was born in 1951, but this notice says 1950.
https://www.thebash.com/caricaturist/mick-cusimano
(some caricatures)
https://www.thecrimson.com/writer/1210166/Mick__Cusimano/
(cartoons for the Crimson)
https://lombardofuneralhome.com/tribute/details/19611/Michael-Cusimano/obituary.html#tribute-start
(this lists his 10 siblings and has a photo of him)
"...Many of his films won awards at the Boston International Film Festival and he was a regular contributor to the Harvard Crimson and Imagine Magazine.Relatives and friends may visit LOMBARDO FUNERAL HOME (Snyder Chapel) 4614 Main St. near Harlem Rd.,
Snyder, NY on Friday, August 26, 2022 from 3-7 PM. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated in Christ the King Church, 30 Lamarck Drive on Saturday August 27th at 11 AM."
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3320966/
(he directed 17 shorts with animation, starting in 2006, wrote nine of those, and acted in five of them)
"Clowns to the left, clowns to the right..."
(lyrics from "Valley of the Kings," IIRC, with a bar or two from "King Tut")
https://www.facebook.com/mick.cusimano
https://twitter.com/mcusiman
(last Tweet was in February)
https://www.youtube.com/user/mcusiman
(some videos - he appears in at least one, but I'm not watching them right now)
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mcusiman
"Mick has created movies and has screened short films in 75+ film festivals worldwide including Cannes, Boston, Cyprus, Woodstock, India, Coney Island, Toronto, etc. His movie Beatniks was just chosen for the Boston International film festival where he
won an award in 2011. His most recent movie is the Search for Cleopatra's Crown.
http://mcusiman.tripod.com/cleo.html
"Mick is a manager at the Harvard University Art Museums over 20 years.
"Mick also has been doing live caricatures in the Boston area for over fifteen years at parties, corporate meetings, colleges, bar mitzvahs, country clubs, and other events. People really seem to enjoy caricatures at their events. Black and white
caricatures 15-20 an hour. Color 8-10. Available in the Boston metro area but also MA, CT, RI, and New Hampshire. Custom gift caricatures also available.
"Mick Cusimano was born in Buffalo, New York. He was drawing cartoons and shoveling snow at an early age. But he kept drawing and got a BS degree from Brockport State College and has taken 16 graduate courses at Harvard Extension School."
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