22 Ways to Draw Obama Caricatures

Politicians aren't more than humans like you and me (despite all the things we will say), but cartoonists know well the potential that exists in someone's countenance, their facial features and the way they speak. As Daryl Cagle, political cartoonist notes on an article in The Moderate Voice;

''When Obama burst into the presidential campaign cartoonists started drawing him as a caricature without much exaggeration. As time goes by, political figures morph in cartoons into caricatures of caricatures; George W. Bush shrank to knee height and grew huge bunny ears; Bill Clinton lost his pants and grew fatter (even as he got skinnier in real life). At the beginning of the Obama administration, everyone is watching to see how the cartoon Obama evolves.''

A cartoonist's job can be seen pretty much as that, they forge an alter-ego for whoever they draw (well, it's a lot more than that but hey!). And I noticed, that in Obama's case, sometimes the cartoons don't even remotely look like him, yet, and somehow, we still recognise them as him! How's that? Some are even contradictory, he has massive ears and tiny nose in one, and the other way round in another! I invite you to see 22 ways in which I've seen 'Bama being drawn:


And now, after showing you the wide gamut of Obamas that have been conceived, I show you my more or less moderate depiction of him I used in a silly comic:


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