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<span class="text"><font color="#666666" class="text"> <style> <!-- .encloser { text-align: left; } .encloser th { text-align: left; } .encloser td { text-align: left; } .encloser caption { text-align: left; } --> </style> <span class="encloser"> <p> </p> <table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" style="width: 650px;"> <tbody> <tr> <td> <p> <span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><strong><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><img alt="" src="/users/johnkascht/Image/webself.jpg" style="width: 263px; height: 298px; float: right;" />John Kascht's</span></strong> satirical drawings have appeared on the pages or<br /> covers of: </span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">TV Guide, Entertainment Weekly, </span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Rolling Stone, Time, Newsweek, Esquire, GQ, The New Yorker, The New York Times,<br /> New York Magazine, The Washington Post, </span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The Los Angeles Times,<br /> The Wall Street Journal, </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">LIFE, </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Golf Digest, </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The Village Voice, </span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The<br /> New York Observer, US News and World Report, Reader’s Digest, Forbes, W, Oprah, Glamour, and MAD magazine, among others.<br /> His work has also appeared on book covers, billboards, Broadway marquees and more than a few cocktail napkins.<br /> <br /> John is among a handful of caricaturists whose work is collected by<br /> The Smithsonian Institution’s<span style="color: rgb(128, 0, 128);"><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> </span></span><a href="http://www.johnkascht.com/content.html?page=2" target="_top"><span style="color: rgb(178, 34, 34);">National Portrait Gallery</span></a><span style="color: rgb(178, 34, 34);">.</span></span><br /> <br /> <span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> Sometimes, John's caricature subjects become fans. Among the notable owners of their caricatured likenesses: </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Katharine Hepburn, </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Milton Berle, </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Sean Connery, </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Stephen King, </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Joan Collins, Ted Turner, </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Rosie O’Donnell, John Travolta, Conan O’Brien, and Ray Romano.</span><br /> <br /> <span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> John’s work is included in several monographs about caricature and portraiture, notably: </span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><cite>"The History of Caricature"</cite><br /> (by Laurent Baridon, Citadelles and Mazenod, Paris),</span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><cite> "The Savage Mirror’"</cite> (by Steven Heller and Gail Anderson)</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span style="font-style: italic;"> </span><cite>and "Rolling Stone: The Illustrated Portraits."</cite> He has received awards from The Society of illustrators, American Illustration, SPD,</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Print, </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Communication Arts, </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The New York Art Director’s Club, and the Society of Newspaper Design.</span><br /> <br /> <span style="line-height: 1.5em;">John lives on a tiny farm in Pennsylvania with his wife</span></span> – <span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">a beekeeper </span></span>– <span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">and 500,000 honeybees. </span></span></span></p> <p> <span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,helvetica,sans-serif;">Link to an <a href="http://face2face.si.edu/my_weblog/2011/04/how-does-he-do-that-the-secrets-of-drawing-a-face.html"><span style="color: rgb(178, 34, 34);">essay and film</span></a> about John's work</span>.</span></p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p> </p> </span> </font></span><br> <h1> </h1>
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