Jules Feiffer
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And I thought Kennedy was style without substance, and I thought Johnson was substance without style, and I much preferred him to Kennedy. I thought he was wonderful. And I had a great deal of trouble arriving at a caricature for a man who
And I thought Kennedy was style without substance, and I thought Johnson was substance without style, and I much preferred him to Kennedy. I thought he was wonderful. And I had a great deal of trouble arriving at a caricature for a man who
looked so clearly unlike a hero and yet I felt was heroic and I didn't know how to go about it and I tried drawing him and I didn't get him very well and I kept my caricatures down and then the one and only time it's ever happened I was invited down to the White House for some kind of function lunch out on the White House lawn and actually got to see Lyndon Johnson in the flesh
looked so clearly unlike a hero and yet I felt was heroic and I didn't know how to go about it and I tried drawing him and I didn't get him very well and I kept my caricatures down and then the one and only time it's ever happened I was invited down to the White House for some kind of function lunch out on the White House lawn and actually got to see Lyndon Johnson in the flesh
looked so clearly unlike a hero and yet I felt was heroic and I didn't know how to go about it and I tried drawing him and I didn't get him very well and I kept my caricatures down and then the one and only time it's ever happened I was invited down to the White House for some kind of function lunch out on the White House lawn and actually got to see Lyndon Johnson in the flesh
and found him very different to look at than the photographs and the pictures on a television screen because I saw in him something that wasn't yet reflected in the writing about him or in the way we saw him. I saw a real meanness there, and I saw it not in the famous nose but in the set of his mouth, which is very, very tight and without humor, and the eyes, which were very cold and suspicious.
and found him very different to look at than the photographs and the pictures on a television screen because I saw in him something that wasn't yet reflected in the writing about him or in the way we saw him. I saw a real meanness there, and I saw it not in the famous nose but in the set of his mouth, which is very, very tight and without humor, and the eyes, which were very cold and suspicious.
and found him very different to look at than the photographs and the pictures on a television screen because I saw in him something that wasn't yet reflected in the writing about him or in the way we saw him. I saw a real meanness there, and I saw it not in the famous nose but in the set of his mouth, which is very, very tight and without humor, and the eyes, which were very cold and suspicious.
And I remember telling people at the time, he looks like the man who turns down your loan at the bank. And that affected – that taught me how to draw him. And within another six months or so, he was no longer this presidential hero of mine. He was now a war criminal because he had gone to the polls as a peace candidate and then immediately after his inauguration started bombing North Vietnam.
And I remember telling people at the time, he looks like the man who turns down your loan at the bank. And that affected – that taught me how to draw him. And within another six months or so, he was no longer this presidential hero of mine. He was now a war criminal because he had gone to the polls as a peace candidate and then immediately after his inauguration started bombing North Vietnam.
And I remember telling people at the time, he looks like the man who turns down your loan at the bank. And that affected – that taught me how to draw him. And within another six months or so, he was no longer this presidential hero of mine. He was now a war criminal because he had gone to the polls as a peace candidate and then immediately after his inauguration started bombing North Vietnam.
Well, Ford – I found wonderful to draw. Most cartoonists didn't like him, but they found him so innocuous and a kind of meatball. And his very meatballism struck me as a wonderful thing to work with. And looking for an idea for a cartoon, I did what I often do. When I'm out of ideas, I started doodling, and I found myself doing a drawing for no reason at all of the Frankenstein monster.
Well, Ford – I found wonderful to draw. Most cartoonists didn't like him, but they found him so innocuous and a kind of meatball. And his very meatballism struck me as a wonderful thing to work with. And looking for an idea for a cartoon, I did what I often do. When I'm out of ideas, I started doodling, and I found myself doing a drawing for no reason at all of the Frankenstein monster.
Well, Ford – I found wonderful to draw. Most cartoonists didn't like him, but they found him so innocuous and a kind of meatball. And his very meatballism struck me as a wonderful thing to work with. And looking for an idea for a cartoon, I did what I often do. When I'm out of ideas, I started doodling, and I found myself doing a drawing for no reason at all of the Frankenstein monster.
I didn't know why I was doing that, and I said, oh, my God, it's Jerry Ford.
I didn't know why I was doing that, and I said, oh, my God, it's Jerry Ford.
I didn't know why I was doing that, and I said, oh, my God, it's Jerry Ford.
Just because the two of them strongly resembled each other. My unconscious brought Jerry Ford with a nail in his neck, and Ford had this big, clumsy, shambling way of moving, not unlike that of the Frankenstein monster. So I did a drawing of Henry Kissinger as Dr. Frankenstein and Jerry Ford as being on the table being invented, and I had great fun with that.
Just because the two of them strongly resembled each other. My unconscious brought Jerry Ford with a nail in his neck, and Ford had this big, clumsy, shambling way of moving, not unlike that of the Frankenstein monster. So I did a drawing of Henry Kissinger as Dr. Frankenstein and Jerry Ford as being on the table being invented, and I had great fun with that.
Just because the two of them strongly resembled each other. My unconscious brought Jerry Ford with a nail in his neck, and Ford had this big, clumsy, shambling way of moving, not unlike that of the Frankenstein monster. So I did a drawing of Henry Kissinger as Dr. Frankenstein and Jerry Ford as being on the table being invented, and I had great fun with that.