Zablo the Barbarian by Jim Ivey

Posted on by

As promised, the first caricature that my buddy, Jim Ivey, drew for me.  I was probably 19 at the time.  So that would date the art at around 1977.  Don’t you love the broken sword?

For those who came in late, Jim Ivey had a 40 year career as a political cartoonist [Washington Star, St. Pete Times, San Francisco Examiner and the Orlando Sentinel].  When I first met Jim in the mid-1970’s he was running The Cartoon Museum in Orlando, Florida.

Jim had a lot of irons in the fire; working as a syndicated cartoonist [The Thoughts of Man], a political cartoonist [The Orlando Sentinel], a publisher [CartooNews], teacher [UCF cartooning class] and even a comic book convention organizer [OrlandoCon]. At the time, I was into collecting comic books and later original art. Jim’s Cartoon Museum was like heaven.