Featured Geek Artist: Caricature Portrait Artist John Kascht
This weeks Featured Geek Artist is caricature portrait artist John Kascht. We have a nice collection of work that he's done over the years, taking actors and actresses that we all recognize and transforming them into fun satirical drawings. I've included the artists bio at the bottom of the page, in case you are interested in learning more about him and his accomplishments. The guy is obviously very good at what he does.
Check out the art work below and tell us what you think! I also included a cool little video of how he created the Conan pieace above.
John Kascht's satirical drawings have appeared on the pages or covers of: TV Guide, Entertainment Weekly, Rolling Stone, Time, Newsweek, Esquire, GQ, The New Yorker, The New York Times, New York Magazine, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, LIFE, Golf Digest, The Village Voice, The New York Observer, US News and World Report, Reader’s Digest, Forbes, W, Oprah, Glamour, and MAD magazine, among others. His work has also appeared on book covers, billboards, Broadway marquees and more than a few cocktail napkins.
John is among a handful of caricaturists whose work is collected by The Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery.
Sometimes, John's caricature subjects become fans. Among the notable owners of their caricatured likenesses: Katharine Hepburn,Milton Berle, Sean Connery, Stephen King, Joan Collins, Ted Turner, Rosie O’Donnell, John Travolta, Conan O’Brien, and Ray Romano.
John’s work is included in several monographs about caricature and portraiture, notably: "The History of Caricature" (by Laurent Baridon, Citadelles and Mazenod, Paris), "The Savage Mirror’" (by Steven Heller and Gail Anderson) and "Rolling Stone: The Illustrated Portraits." He has received awards from The Society of illustrators, American Illustration, SPD, Print, Communication Arts, The New York Art Director’s Club, and the Society of Newspaper Design.
John lives on a tiny farm in Pennsylvania with his wife – a beekeeper – and 500,000 honeybees.