Gerald Scarfe

Gerald Scarfe (born June 1, 1936, London, England) is an English caricaturist best known for his savagely grotesque portraits of politicians and other public figures. For most of his first 19 years Scarfe was bedridden with chronic asthma, and he began to draw during these long periods of confinement. After a brief, uncongenial period with an advertising agency, he became a freelance artist, and his early work was accepted by the Evening Standard, Punch, and,...