You’ve seen them in magazines, in cartoons, and at just about every densely populated tourist attraction in America. A professional caricature artist will manage not only to capture a person’s likeness, but amplify it – all while exaggerating, contorting, and stylizing the subject’s most prominent features. To some, they are souvenirs. Fleeting entertainment. To others, […]
Today Michael Maslin corrects a couple misconceptions that have taken hold about Alan Dunn and the cartoons he did for The New Yorker: In my earliest days at The New Yorker it seemed to be a gospel truth that Alan Dunn was the most prolific New Yorker artist. I’ve long been fascinated by how such facts […]
Caricaturist Tom Kelly has passed away. Thomas Merton (Tom) Kelly October 12, 1950 – January 4, 2022 From the obituary: He studied at Cal Poly Pomona before launching a successful career as a caricaturist and cartoonist at Knott’s Berry Farm and Disneyland. Tom was in constant demand as an artist at wedding receptions, birthday parties, […]
Crabgrass by Tauhid Bondia will debut in newspapers on March 28, June 27, 2022. The Elizabethtown (Ky) News-Enterprise, in a front page above the fold story, revealed the date. Elizabethtown native Tauhid Bondia soon will be making readers across the country chuckle. His daily humor comic, Crabgrass, about two best friends named Kevin and Myles, […]
As Joe Biden approaches his first year in office, Gary Varvel (Creators) points out how badly things have gone. And he’s right: Biden walked into Trump’s naive agreement to withdraw our troops from Afghanistan with barely any conditions, whereupon the Kabul government collapsed and the Taliban took over before we could arrange a peaceful evacuation […]