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Kerry Waghorn (born January 10, 1947) is a syndicated caricaturist whose ''Faces in the News'' feature, established in 1977 by Chronicle Features (''San Francisco Chronicle'') is a journalistic legend.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Reading the World's Most Famous Faces (2004) )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Making Faces (2011) )〕 He estimates that more than 9,000 of his images have been published since the early 1970s, including just about every prominent news, business and entertainment face over that span of history. During the many years he spent under the management of newspaper icon G. Stanleigh Arnold, the ''Chronicle''s Sunday and Features Editor, he refined his skills within a team that included Garry Trudeau (''Doonesbury''), Gary Larson (''The Far Side''), Abigail Van Buren (Dear Abby), William Hamilton (of ''The New Yorker''), Phil Frank (''Farley''), and Cathy Guisewite (''Cathy''). Arnold had also been instrumental in the early stages of Charles Schulz' (''Peanuts'') career. Waghorn, who resides in West Vancouver, B.C., is currently represented by Universal Press Syndicate of Kansas City, MO, and he continues to create about three new caricatures a week. Universal, a subsidiary of Jim Andrews and John McMeel's Andrews McMeel Universal, founded in 1970, purchased Chronicle Features in 1997. == Biography and background == Kerry was born and raised in North Vancouver, British Columbia, the son of Raymond and Morah Waghorn. His father, also born in British Columbia, was a coppersmith in the vibrant shipbuilding industry of North Vancouver. His mother, born in Louisbourg, N.S. on Canada's east coast, moved at a young age with her family to British Columbia. Kerry has one younger brother, Dean. Kerry graduated from North Vancouver High School in 1965 and soon after attended the recently opened Simon Fraser University in nearby Burnaby, intending to study political science. He immediately became involved with the student newspaper ''The Peak'' as an editorial artist and layout editor. When SFU became a Canadian focal point of student and teacher protests, including the occupation of the administration buildings, Kerry's news career became so dominant he lost all interest in academic pursuits. The leap from the student press to underground newspapers and, subsequently, mainstream media became a logical progression. During the student days his preoccupations included playing the drums in a succession of rock bands and also working on fishing boats along the B.C. coast. Yet everything he did came back to art: sketches of fishing boats, captains and crew; and drawings of rock musicians in multiple poses and situations. It was the latter work that attracted the attention of the rock promoters of the late 1960s. Kerry's first commission was a poster advertising an upcoming concert by vocalist Laura Nyro. He was invited into a partnership with poster artist Bob Masse and moved into Masse's studio in Vancouver's Gastown. Posters for concerts of Led Zeppelin, Elton John, the Beach Boys, Boz Scaggs, Chicago, Grand Funk, Canned Heat, Doobie Brothers. Taj Mahal and many others followed. During this era, ''The Georgia Straight'', a trend-setting and controversial flagship of the underground press (still going strong in 2010), began publishing his cartoons. ''The Straight'' syndicated his work to a number of alternative newspapers, including the ''Los Angeles Free Press'', the ''Detroit Free Press'' and ''The Berkeley Barb''. Mainstream media would soon follow. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kerry Waghorn」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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