NY Times Scales New Heights in Mean Condi Caricatures
Anthony Lewis reviewed Glenn Kessler's Condiography The Confidante in yesterday's New York Times Sunday Book Review , and, you know, blah, blah, blah. Whatever. It all just seems like an excuse to publish the accompanying illustration, an absolutely fab drawing of Condoleezza Rice by the excitingly-named Noma Bar. If you're reluctant to click the link, see a full-sized screenshot of the illustration and learn more about the artist after the jump...
Noma Bar has a talent for creating convincing likenesses by combining a few elegant lines (Robert Risko comes to mind) with brilliantly-incorporated symbolic graphical elements. It's a combination of political cartooning and caricature. Mr. Bar was born in Israel and lives in London, where he does lots of work for The Guardian , Time Out London , etc. You may order a book of his work and see a few more images here , and there are many other illustrations viewable around the web.
What I really love about Bar's illustration of Condi is that it shows that The Flip will never die, even though Condi abandoned the sassy upturned hairdo in May of 2005 . Embrace The Flip, Condi! Bring back The Flip!
The Enabler [ New York Times ]