A name that will live in infamy. He walked away from a financial trainwreck and pocketed some say $700 million.
Obama's newly appointed chief of staff.
#1 of 1.13 million in Yahoo! search for Rahm Emanuel cartoons on 26 November 2008.
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Self portrait, Zach Trenholm
Nobody does this better than Zach Trenholm. For one thing, he nails a likeness and that's what caricature is all about. I recall my mentor Harold Irving Smith, who was a pupil of the great teacher and painter Robert Henri at the old Art Students League in New York, saying time and time again that the first thing you have to get in a portrait is a likeness. Without that, it's just another sketch. Feast your eyes on these and his other work at his site by clicking on the hot link to it above.
Larry King
#1 of 248,000 in Google (TM) Search for caricatures of Sarah Palin on 31 October 2008.
Mike Lynch and his pals. Check out and bookmark his blog at:
http://mikelynchcartoons.blogspot.com/
I've been remiss in not posting more material from other cartoonist bloggers. Mike Lynch deserves special mention for being a wonderful source of information for not only fellow cartoonists but those who really care about what's happening in the world of cartoons.
For one thing, Mike and his wife Stacy like cats and that's all I need to know to embrace a perfect stranger as a friend. Not that I would ever exclude dog lovers for I envy them for having pets they can walk with, though I don't think I would enjoy following them with a plastic bag.
Here are a couple of Mike's cartoons. You will enjoy many more at this link, and the work of his colleagues, at the hot link at the top of this entry.
Click here for more excellent cartoon journalism by Mike recording events at the Small Press Expo meeting a couple of months ago. Be sure to click through all the links found at the bottom of his page. This is journalism at its best and the way more of it should be. Photojournalism has its very deserved place in the great scheme of things but there is far too little of what Mike proves can be done. Amen, end of sermon.
We enjoyed a very agreeable visit from Mike last week. He was kind enough to write about it on his blog and included some step-by-step examples of the caricatures I did last week for www.truthoutorg.com
01 November 2008 -- Two more of Mike's cartoons for your amusement.
We now learn that this fearless woman, one-heart-beat-away-from-being-POTUSA, says that should she become VPOTUS she would be in charge of the Senate.
Meanwhile, back on the campaign trail, we also learn that the Republican National Committee has given her $150,000 to spend on her image.
Click on the link to find out where she's spent the money.
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Now we hear that the clothes will be given to charity. Hah, I'll bet they end up on eBay if McCain is elected. His choice for Secretary of the Treasury is Meg Whitman, former CEO of eBay.
#1 of 197,000 in Google (TM) Search for Sarah Palin caricatures on 24 October 2008.#1 of 78,100 in Google (TM) Search for Palin shopaholic on 7 November 2008.
#1 of 199,000 in Google (TM) Search for caricatures Joe McCarthy on 24 October 2008.
Joe McCarthy was a hopeless liar and boozer as well as a Republican senator from Wisconsin. He was very much the subject of conversation in the early 1950s. I had friends who believed every word he said about Communists. I recall working in a bullpen listening to the radio during the famous Army-McCarthy hearings when a wonderful old New England lawyer named Joseph Welch chopped "tail-gunner Joe" off at the knees when implored "Have you no sense of decency, sir?"
Edward R. Murrow later buried McCarthy on CBS television. Bachmann and Palin seem to be working from Joe's play book. This, above, is a caricature I did at the time in a technique that was popular when solid brush lines were necessary for decent letterpress printing on newsprint.
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#1 of 33,300 in Google (TM) Search for Hank Paulson caricatures on 24 October 2008.
I just read a chilling account of the life of John McCain in the current Truthout.org when they ran this caricature of mine. The author is Tim Dickinson, from Rolling Stone magazine. It has a pub date of 16 October 2008 and runs with a cartoon by Robert Grossman, I believe.
This image by Boris Yefimov of Napoleon confronting a sick Adolf Hitler and a cringing Benito Mussolini dfeated at the gates of Moscow in World War II courtesy of http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/
David Low was the foremost political cartoonist of World War II with a very similar drawing style.
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Click on this link to view a brilliant video of a brilliant caricaturist -- one of my very favorites -- with his very savvy and down-to-earth commentary. Courtesy, of course, of Steve Bell and the Guardian, whom I hope will not have a problem with my calling attention to this rare find.
The cartoon, above, appeared in the Guardian on 11 September just after Sarah Palin's being elevated to being John McCain's running mate.
Take your pick. Only time will tell.
