You can’t really discuss caricatures without bringing up Mad Magazine. Mort Drucker (born March 22, 2929) is an American caricature and comic book artist, best known for five decades of work at Mad Magazine. He is widely considered one of the best caricature artists of all time. He is so well known, that in 1985 on the Tonight Show, Johnny Carson asked Michael J. Fox, "When did you really know you'd made it in show business?" Fox replied, "When Mort Drucker drew my head."
In 2012, Drucker had this to say about his own work: “I've always considered a caricature to be the complete person, not just a likeness. Hands in particular have always been a prime focus for me as they can be as expressive of character as the exaggerations and distortions a caricaturist searches for. I try to capture the essence of the person, not just facial features... I've discovered through years of working at capturing a humorous likeness that it's not about the features themselves as much as the space between the features. We all have two eyes, a nose, a mouth, hair and jaw lines, but yet we all look different. What makes that so is the space between them.”
