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| - Gerry Gersten (October 17, 1927, New York City - January 12, 2017) was a political caricaturist, known for his pencil on vellum technique. Gersten emerged as a noted caricaturist in the 1960s, for his illustrations books and magazines such as The New York Times, New York, Sports Illustrated, Time, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, and Esquire. Beginning in 1986 he began illustrating features for Mad, illustrating 39 features for that publication until 2001. (en)
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| - Gerry Gersten (October 17, 1927, New York City - January 12, 2017) was a political caricaturist, known for his pencil on vellum technique. Gersten emerged as a noted caricaturist in the 1960s, for his illustrations books and magazines such as The New York Times, New York, Sports Illustrated, Time, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, and Esquire. Beginning in 1986 he began illustrating features for Mad, illustrating 39 features for that publication until 2001. Both football player Joe Namath and then-U.S. Vice President George H. W. Bush so liked Gersten's caricatures of them that they each requested personal copies of them, with Bush in particular calling Gersten's rendition of him a "masterpiece", the original of which Gersten gave to Bush as a gift. (en)
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