January 21st, 2021 | Posted in Presidential Caricatures
Back in early 2015 I was in my final few months as president of the National Cartoonists Society, and planning my last “Reuben Award Weekend” to take place in Washington DC in May. The Lovely Anna was in charge of the decor at the big awards dinner (actually she was in charge of everything but I enjoyed pretending to be doing something) and at her command request I did a series of black and white pencil sketch caricatures of all 44 U.S. Presidents for centerpieces for the banquet, George Washington was Table #1, etc.. They were small at about 4 x 6. and the originals… READ MORE
October 11th, 2017 | Posted in Presidential Caricatures
I’ve gotten a number of inquiries as to when I will do a caricature of the 45th President to update my president’s poster: Well this is it, but it was not for the poster. I’ve actually licensed several of these individual images since I did them for various purposes. A publisher from the northwest recently licensed all of the them for an educational book about the U.S. Presidents, but they needed them in color and of course they needed Trump. So, I did the above sketch in the same style and colored all of them in. They are printing fairly small so the color is… READ MORE
June 3rd, 2015 | Posted in Presidential Caricatures
Since I am doing a poster of all my presidential caricatures, I had to do a real one of Grover Cleveland for his second, but non-consecutive, term. So, here is the real final caricature of this series… at least until 2016. READ MORE
May 22nd, 2015 | Posted in Presidential Caricatures
Fun Facts: The first African-American president; was a comic book collector; only president born in Hawaii READ MORE
May 21st, 2015 | Posted in Presidential Caricatures
Fun Facts: Used to be part owner of the Texas Ranger baseball team; son of the 41st president George H.W. Bush; first president elected in the 21st century READ MORE
May 20th, 2015 | Posted in Presidential Caricatures
Fun Facts: Loves peanut butter and banana sandwiches and fast food; was allergic to Socks, the family cat; famously played the saxophone at his inauguration and on TV READ MORE
May 19th, 2015 | Posted in Presidential Caricatures
Fun Facts: Brought the game of “horseshoes” to the White House, often playing with staff and groundskeepers; at 19 was one of the youngest Navy pilots in Word War II; hated broccoli and banned it from the White House READ MORE
May 18th, 2015 | Posted in Presidential Caricatures
Fun Facts: Loved jelly beans; oldest president to take office at nearly 70; was a semi-famous actor before he got into politics READ MORE
