These samples of John Johns' caricatures are lifted from an old National Cartoonists Society (NCS) membership album... from 1972, I think. I had him autograph my copy the first week or so I was at the Art Institute.
Johns did them for the covers of the weekly TV program guide, when he worked for the the Pittsburgh Press, before he was the president at AiP. He told us that this sort of thing was pretty low on the paper's priorities. After all his "regular" work was done that week... spot illustrations, maps, retouching and the like... in whatever time was remaining, he was allowed to do these amazing covers. Some weeks he had the luxury of a few hours. Others it was just thirty or forty-five minutes. So his medium changed from week to week... color or black and white... depending on what time he could put into it.
The great thing was, you couldn't tell by looking at them which got the less time and attention. The were all terrific caricatures to envy and emulate.
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