Celebrity caricature in America has become a popular twentieth-century permutation of the longstanding art of caricature—the distortion of the face or figure for satiric purposes—which claims an extensive tradition in Western art. For...

A caricature is either a portrait that exaggerates or distorts the essence of a person or thing to create an easily identifiable visual likeness, or in literature, a description of a person using exaggeration of some characteristics and...

ONE OF Margaret Thatcher's arguments in defence of that nice General Pinochet is that he never knew what atrocities were being committed in his name. As she put it at Blackpool, "It is a caricature of justice to maintain that a head of government...

WHAT KIND of tobacco do you chew, the cartoon cowboy asks as he pulls out his pouch of Red Man. You wouldn't believe it, the Indian replies, reaching for his pouch of White Man. As jokes go, it's kind of funny but a...

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Thursday criticized Democratic rival Hillary Rodham Clinton as a European caricature who would turn the United States into a welfare state.Speaking to about 200 people in Sioux City, Romney said he wanted to highlight the differences between himself and...

A state attorney Thursday called for the dismissal of a court case brought by French Muslims against a satirical weekly that printed caricatures of the Prophet Mohamed, saying the cartoons denounce terrorists' use of the Muslim faith but do not damage Islam.The trial, which opened...