Again With The President-Elect Obama Is Too Awesome To Draw Complaint



This interview with Mike Luckovich at The Huffington Post isn't exactly groundbreaking, but it's worth noting for the reappearance of the common complaint you always get with new heads of state and that we seem to be getting about twice as frequently with President-Elect Obama: he's difficult to draw in a funny manner. Even if I hadn't seen this before every single time there's an election, I don't think it's a bad thing if the president plays more the role of someone around whom comedy happens rather than the source of everything funny and sad. Besides, as anyone who's ever attended a fraternity skits night or a Christmas party at the office knows, when someone nails someone that's difficult to parody it's like 18 billion times funnier than skewering someone with more out-sized, buffoonish traits.

What's fascinating here in comics terms, though, is that Luckovich admits that if he grew to dislike President Obama he'd likely draw him differently, and even includes a sketch of what that might look like.
 
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