1966–67 Tomi self-publishes The Party, in which he expresses his aversion to New York elite society, as well as the book of erotic drawings Fornicon. He becomes the food editor for Playboy magazine. 1968 Tomi donates thousands of his children’s book drawings and other materials from 1955–1974 to the Free Library of Philadelphia. 1970–73 Tomi marries Yvonne Wright, who worked for the Children’s Book Council and whom he meets on a subway train. They move to a farm in Nova Scotia, Canada, an experience he later depicts in Heute hier, morgen fort (Here today, gone tomorrow) and Slow Agony (1983). In 1972, Tomi makes drawings for Willy Brandt’s Social Democratic Party and meets advertising executive Robert Pütz, with whom he will collaborate on numerous advertising campaigns. 1975 Ungerer donates a substantial part of his work and toy collection to the Musées de Strasbourg. He produces Das große Liederbuch (The great song book) a large-format collection of lullabies and folk songs, which the New York Times calls his “masterwork” and which sells over one million copies in the German-language market. 1976 Ungerer and his family move permanently to the Republic of Ireland. 1979 Publication of the satirical works Babylon and Politrics, as well as Abracadabra, a collection of advertising work done jointly with Robert Pütz in Germany. 1981 A retrospective exhibition at the Musée des Arts Decoratifs at the Louvre celebrates twenty-five years of Ungerer’s career. The exhibition travels to Munich, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Dublin, and the Royal Festival Hall in London, where one third of the show is closed
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