Edward Sorel: Nice Work If You Can Get It a 20-minute overview of his career as a cartoonist and illustrator, in which the artist goes through a lot of paper in the search for immediacy. Filmed by his son, with commentary by contemporaries Milton Glaser and Jules Feiffer.
posted by TimTypeZed
on Nov 13, 2011 -
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Funny Bones -- Anatomy of a Celebrity Caricature. Artist John Kascht looks for the unique character in Conan O'Brien's face and body. And hair. (Half-hour video)
posted by TimTypeZed
on Apr 26, 2011 -
10 comments
This past Spring, Duke University hosted concurrent exhibits that featured curated images of satirical political cartoons. Fortunately, the exhibits are free to enjoy from the comfort of your bed/couch/desk chair. From the Nasher Museum of Art, there is
Lines of Attack: Conflicts in Caricature, comparing pieces from as early as 19th Century France to post 9/11 US. From the Perkins Library, we get
Abusing Power: Satirical Journals, an exhibit of 19th and early 20th Century pieces from around the world.
posted by Ufez Jones
on Jun 10, 2010 -
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French artist
Anthony Geoffrey makes fantastic celebrity caricatures. The site uses flash and is in French but it loads fast and the navigation is simple. The caricatures are in the Portfolio. I particularly enjoyed his Ash from
Evil Dead and his House MD. These are
not the same as the ones you find in the mall by some poor guy trying to scratch out a living.
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posted by bwg
on May 15, 2010 -
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David Levine, beloved caricaturist for several publications, but most notably for the
New York Review of Books,
died last Tuesday at age 83 due to complications of prostate cancer. Since 1963, he contributed over 3,800 caricatures for the magazine, which prominently featured his drawings in promotional material. You can look at over 2,500 of his drawings
here, review his website featuring his painting
here, and see him interviewed
here.
Toward the end of his life, his vision failed due to macular degeneration and his relationship with the magazine became
somewhat strained. Upon his death, the magazine noted that he was, simply, "the greatest caricaturist of his time."
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posted by pasici
on Jan 1, 2010 -
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As a belated tribute (of sorts) to
Victoria Day, may you find interest in a variety of
Victorina era literature, short and long. In the short category, there is
Chit-Chat of Humor, Wit, and Anecdote (Edited by Pierce Pungent; New York: Stringer & Townsend (1857), who has written
quite a bit of such work)
[via mefi projects], and
Conundrums New and Old (Collected by John Ray Frederick; J. Drake & Company Publishers Chicago, 1902)
[via mefi projects] This publishing house also published
The Art of Characturing, copyright 1941. If you prefer your antiquated humor with a twist, take a gander at
bizarro version of Conundrums New and Old [via mefi projects]. In the category of longer works, behold the
The Lost Novels of Victorian New Zealand [via an older mefi projects].
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posted by filthy light thief
on May 29, 2009 -
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No Tourists, No Artists. Tourists at
Atlanta's Underground didn't realize they were working with an real live artist, but they were.
Tom Richmond,
Caricaturist Of The Year for 1998 and 1999,
recipient of a Reuben Award in
2003 ,
one-time comic book creator, and frequent artistic contributor to
Mad Magazine (
movie parodies, mostly), supported his freelance work for almost 18 years by doing cartoons-for-hire in
historic Underground Atlanta.
Despite many efforts to "save" it,
Underground continues to
fade in popularity and the tourist traffic just dwindles on down, leaving folks like Tom no choice but to pack up their paints and leave. Tom's story makes for interesting insight into a job that most of us might take for tourist-trapping huckstery.
(via Radical Georgia Moderate)
posted by grabbingsand
on Jan 7, 2008 -
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The Hirschfeld Follies: A charming and generous gallery of Al Hirschfeld's portraits from The New York Times, spanning from 1928 to 2002 (
registration required), indexed by
date,
person and
show. Are there any outstanding young contemporary caricaturists out there who are doing good work (not necessarily in the theatre) we old-timers should know about? [
Be sure to accompany with plep's great post on American cartoon and caricature and PeteyStock's January 2004 obituary post. And while you're at it, if you'll excuse the immodesty, my own David Levine post, with a (superb) still-working link.]
posted by MiguelCardoso
on May 5, 2004 -
7 comments
