A Different View Of The Candidates

If you are in the need of a short hiatus from "serious" campaign coverage, check out artist John Kascht's portrayal of past and present 2008 Presidential candidates.

Kascht is best described in his personal online bio:

John Kascht is one of the most widely published caricature artists working today. His satirical drawings have appeared on the pages or covers of: TV Guide, Time, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, Esquire, GQ, The New Yorker, LIFE, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Village Voice, Entertainment Weekly, Forbes, Premiere, Oprah, US News and World Report, Reader’s Digest, W, Glamour, and MAD magazine.
John is among a handful of caricaturists whose work is collected by The Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery. To date, the museum has purchased two-dozen pieces, three of which are currently hanging.
Sometimes, John's caricature subjects become fans. Among the notable owners of their caricatured likenesses: Milton Berle, Katharine Hepburn, Stephen King, Sean Connery, Joan Collins, Ted Turner, Rosie O’Donnell, John Travolta, Conan O’Brien, and Ray Romano—who commissioned drawings of the cast of ‘Everybody Loves Raymond’ as his gift to the actors at the taping of the show’s final episode.
John’s work is included in the books "The History of Caricature" (by Laurent Baridon, 2006, Citadelles and Mazenod, Paris),"The Savage Mirror’" (by Steven Heller and Gail Anderson), and "Rolling Stone: The Illustrated Portraits." He has received awards from The Society of illustrators, American Illustration, Communication Arts, Print, The Society of Publication Designers, The New York Art Director’s Club, and the Society of Newspaper Design.
John lives on a tiny farm in Pennsylvania with his wife--a beekeeper--and 500,000 honeybees.

Kascht's Presidential hopeful caricatures are available for viewing at WashingtonPost.com and are portrayed through video where Kascht describes the inspiration and demonstrates the way in which he goes about his creative work.

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