This image, done for the Washington Post Magazine, for an article, entitled Great Liars of the Year, 1987, marked a turning point in media's willingness to criticize President Ronald Reagan, and in my career. Prior to that caricature of this kind was shunned by mainstream publications, having, perhaps, overdosed on it during Watergate. Now, Reagan had presented the country with a scandal all his own: Iran/contra . From here on, calls for satire from this young artist were frequent and many.
In 1982 I was sent by "The Progressive" magazine, and there brilliant art Director, Patrick Jb FLYNN to tour of the Midwest, and do a story on family farmers, who are struggling to survive under the Reagan administration, FmHA policy, which was bent on turning large tracts of land over to Agribusiness (factory farms.) I interviewed 30 farmers and six of those interviews were published in the magazine. It was one of my first forays into art journalism. This is a drawing of the Clauser family appealing for help to the local FmHA office, the one that had been working to destroy their business.
I always felt great freedom in responding to the influences around me, and remaining an impressionable artist. It's pretty clear that Cezánne and cubism were on my mind as I painted this group portrait of the 1988 field, for Mother Jones.
I always felt great freedom in responding to the influences around me, and remaining an impressionable artist. It's pretty clear that Cezánne and cubism were on my mind as I painted this group portrait of the 1988 field, for Mother Jones.
George HW, Bush devoted his life to climbing the political ladder and fending off suspicions about his manhood. Luckily, for caricature artist, he did come off as thin and ineffectual. Emphasizing those physical traits, made him an easy subject. His struggles with the English language enabled further Fun in the drawing. This was done on scratchboard using ink sprayed for me toothbrush. The New York Times Magazine, 1989.
My first Donald Trump. This was done for spy magazine in speculation of a 1988 presidential run by Trump, and ideas so absurd that it allowed for a humor piece with this extremely dubious portrait. As if frozen in amber, Donald Trump remained the same virulent , greedy, racist, authoritarian figure for 40 years, only to transform in terms of image: starting as a laughable Queens redneck, and finishing off as the greatest threat to US democracy of all time.
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