Tag: Calgary Sun
How to Draw Obama
Obama seems like an easy guy to draw; he’s skinny, has a big chin, expressive eyebrows and lips. As it turns out, no matter how a cartoonist draws Obama, somebody gets mad.
When Obama burst into the presidential campaign cartoonists started drawing him as a caricature without much exaggeration. As time goes by, political figures morph [...]
Blue Lips and Killed Obama Cartoon
Patrick Corrigan, the cartoonist for the Toronto Star, sent me this caricature of Obama (left) that his editor refused to run, because it was too much of a “racial stereotype.” I asked Patrick about the blue lips, because I’ve noticed that Thomas “Tab” Boldt, of the Calgary Sun and Cam Cardow of the Ottawa Citizen, [...]
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Cartoony Politics in Canada
I’ve never paid much attention to Canadian politics and I’ve never really understood the cartoons that my colleagues north of the border draw.
But lately, the Canadian political cartoons have taken on a frantic tone and I asked [...]
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