The caricature of what George Osborne is doing on the fiscal side is absurd. If you read some of the commentary, particularly from the left, you would think he was turning the clock back to the 1930s.
Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.
I never think if I do an impression of someone, I'm never making fun of them.
Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.
I'll come out and say it because no one else will: French gross-out humor is the best. Particularly the illustrated variety.
Fascism is a caricature of Jacobinism.
When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.
Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.
The comic novels I did when I was in my 20s had a harder edge - less sympathy for people. Or a sympathy that was harder to detect: Characters' foibles and obsessive bents were unrelenting, like caricatures.
When I draw my caricature self-portrait, I always do a huge smile.
I was pretending to be a fake, a caricature, which is something I'm not, and I was doing it out of desperation and scarcity so I could provide for my family.
History's lesson, of course, is that attempts to suppress free expression have merely confirmed the caricaturists' original critique of heavy-handed and objectionable actions of overreaching governments.
When you build characters from the outside in, they become, oftentimes they become like 'Saturday Night Live' characters or they become like caricatures of the character.
What strikes me as funny about Elvis is that all the impersonators choose to do the Vegas Elvis; not the young, cool guy, always the bloated fool.
Is not parody the eternal lot of man?
When caricaturist, Al Hirschfeld, did a drawing of a celebrity, it often looked more like the person than the person did. That's our goal in animation.
I do not make jokes about Sarah Palin simply because I could not live in this world if I believed she was a real person.
Perhaps the reason Trump voters are so frequently the subject of caricature is that they so frequently conform to type.
We must defend freedom of expression and if I had to chose, I prefer the excess of caricature over the excess of censure.
But to me what seems to be missing in a lot of portfolios is Cartooning.
Fortunately, cartooning is not a job. It's something like eating or sleeping.
Yes, I am aware that I have become a caricature. I've thought about this. Conceptually, what I'd like to do is the equivalent of writing myself out of the script.
[Elizabeth Moon's] antagonists are always evil moustache-twirlers. She could write a book about a golf open and the main rival to the hero would turn out to have clubs made from compressed kittens.
You just have to get one misstep - that's an easy way to fall into caricature. Bad caricature.
Fear is a distorting mirror in which anything can appear as a caricature of itself, stretched to terrible proportions; once inflamed, the imagination pursues the craziest and most unlikely possibilities. What is most absurd suddenly seems the most probable.
