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Article: How to Draw Obama

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February 20, 2009
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PRESIDENT OBAMA SEEMS LIKE AN EASY GUY TO DRAW: HE S SKINNY, HAS A BIG CHIN, expressive eyebrows and lips. But as it turns out, no matter how a cartoonist draws him, somebody gets mad.

When Obama burst into the presidential campaign cartoonists started drawing him as a caricature without much exaggeration.

As time goes by, pol- itical figures morph in cartoons into caricatures of caricatures-. George W. Bush, for example, 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.

I worked for 20 years as a cartoon ...

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