4/15/2023 0 Comments Night at the roxbury trump![]() His facial expressions - he really is a cartoon. Every picture of Trump is a revelation, at any angle. ![]() When I see a picture of someone or something I want to draw, I put it in a folder. How did you approach the task of drawing him? I drew Bill Clinton a lot, but wasn’t by choice - it just sort of happened.Īnd then along came Trump. It seems when Monica Lewinsky entered the scene, political stuff became pop culture stuff. When I started sarcastic, smart-alecky stuff, I wound up with a regular cartoon in Entertainment Weekly. I did not grow up in a political household and it wasn’t my thing at all. You have become known for your scathingly amusing portraits of the political scene. Given the opportunity, I have a peculiar compulsion to redraw something over and over. When I saw my first cover in print I was sort of like I often am: ‘Oh, why didn’t I do this?’ or ‘Why did I make that color?’ That’s pretty par for the course with me. What was it like to have your illustration on the cover of such a prestigious magazine? I started doing some interior drawings and then Tina Brown, who was editor-in-chief at the time, wanted one of my sketches to be expanded into a cover. It’s best I don’t talk to anybody lest I alienate myself. I’m not a good businessman and I don’t promote myself particularly well. It all just sort of happened organically. I took my portfolio to Chris Curry at The New Yorker. I was getting work published in Toronto and made a couple of trips into New York. When did the first big break come that made you feel you were really a professional? A friend typed up a letter and sent it out to a bunch of hockey teams and a couple of them responded and I did drawings for $25 a pop. When I was a teenager, I was a rabid hockey fan - I still am - and I ended up doing illustrations for a couple of yearbooks: the Philadelphia Flyers’ and the Pittsburgh Penguins’. What was the first piece you got published? ![]() I remember drawing a lot of hockey players and baseball players and Elton John and rock stars and stuff. A lot of the early work I did was sort of hero worship. I was drawing Popeye a lot I was a big fan. My grandfather used to copy Norman Rockwell pictures, so I had him as a cheerleader. Like all kids, I was plopped down in front of crayons and paper when I was quite young, essentially to keep me amused and out of the way.
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