Ideally, cartooning is meant to be a humorous enterprise. There aren’t many individuals who feed their household and pay their payments by taking pen to paper to attract one thing that hopefully makes folks snigger, or not less than assume.
However humorous additionally must be simply recognizable. And for cartoonists, every new administration comes with a mandate: to create a personality that readers can immediately determine because the president.
Donald Trump was a cartoonist’s dream together with his flamboyant shock of blond coiffed hair and his signature lengthy purple tie. Like Trump, President Joe Biden has a number of dominant bodily traits that may information my thoughts’s eye in serving to craft the character.
For instance, Biden’s eyes are continuously squinted and even hidden behind aviator sun shades; each are comedic gold for any cartoonist. Equally, Biden’s broad, toothy smile — he might simply have been a pitchman for any teeth-whitening product — dominates his elongated countenance, topped by his combed-back white hair.
Put all of it collectively, and — even with out a classic Corvette — you get a likeness that screams to me in Biden’s voice as I draw: “C’mon, man, add some colour!” Which you’ll be able to see on the finish.