The Roadside Artist

Dick Gautier is an actor who has appeared in many TV shows and movies. He is also a very good artist! In fact, I consider Mr. Gautier to be one of the two people who inspired me to become a caricature artist.

Dick Gautier, Actor, Artist

Since you are here, you should take a look at Dick Gautier’s work. I’m jealous of his talent.

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Attorney General Alberto Gonzales:

“How about, ‘No hablo ingles’? Does that work for you?”

Alberto had to appear before a Senate panel investigating the firing of some US attorneys. It wasn’t a very friendly audience. It was like a gang clubbing a baby seal. The Attorney General didn’t remember much, alas, which was sad. I prefer direct answers to questions. But that’s just me.

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Funding the war in Iraq, or not. Conflict at home, conflict abroad. Cartoon-caricature illustrating the dangers in playing a game of chicken with funding of the war and the troops. You can draw your own conclusions…

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi takes aim at President Bush with the threat to defund the war in Iraq, but sometimes the troops get in the way.

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copyright 2007 The Roadside Artist

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Don Imus can be a shrutebag sometimes and Al Sharpton is a shameless opportunist. In some ways, they belong together. I was going to call this CARICATURE sketch, “A High-Tech Lynching” borrowing a phrase from Clarence Thomas…

But I don’t know if that really fits. Al certainly used his media influence to take a stupid comment and blow it up into a national emergency. Lord knows, there’s nothing ELSE important going on in the world.

So now Imus is fired from his job, and there will be no more racism in America.

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