Caricature 1994/5.

As I've possibly mentioned before, I have very few archived original examples of the industry nabob caricatures I was doing for TravelWeek magazine during the time artwork was still being done in the traditional 'pen and ink on paper' era. That was largely because I had a deal with the editor to accept an additional stipend over and above my usual fee, so the mag. publisher could have the originals mounted/framed for presentation to each of the 'victims' of my work. Previous to the 'arrangement', subjects of the art-work often came direct to me to purchase originals. Frankly, it was a nuisance hassling about cost, then having to pack and despatch the items... so the deal was a 'win-win' for all concerned.

Today, I've scanned a sample set of originals I still possess. The personalities depicted are doubtless unknown to anyone casually visiting this blog, but in the context of my cartooning past, these caricature jobs formed a solid base platform for all the other not so regular stuff I was turning out at the time. These were evidently part of an exhibition, because I had gone to the trouble of affixing small pics of the individuals so viewers had a reference to how the subjects actually looked in 'real'.

In order, they are Keryn Smith, grp mgr Tek Travel in NZ. - 09/11/1994... Jim Clements, UFTAA (international federation of Travel Agent associations) - 23/11/1994... and, Chris Chaplin of Thos, Cook - 18/01/1995. The situations in which each were pictured was illustrative of some part of the accompanying printed interview texts.