Funny! Not Ugly! Kartoon Caricatures by Dian & Pete Wagner (EVENTS)

06/02/2024

A few photos from our 3 hour gig at a high school all-night party over in Wisconsin this week. We love drawing for these kids and their parents.

06/02/2024

We used to do about 10-15 high school all-night grad parties every year but the hours were killing us, so now we only accept two or three. One last night was with a private school who used to have us join them every year in the 1980s-90s and it was nice to be with them again. Here are a couple of photos and videos from that gig.

04/09/2024

I kept thinking while I was sitting underneath that huge symbol dangling about 35 feet above my head and drawing Saturday night, wouldn't this be a great way to die? If it fell on me there just think how famous I would be. The artist killed by The Artist and then we would both be formerly known as.

02/18/2024

Working on a new website. Hard to design for desktop/tablet/mobile... nothing works well on all three!

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08/25/2023

Just a few random pix from this summer's many, many, MANY gigs!

05/07/2023

Clever combination of a dog event + egg hunt last month...
I always draw very fast, but when you draw dogs and they are moving around so much, I have to draw SUPER fast and the results are quite funny/weird. It forces me to come up with a super shorthanded way of summing up the look and feel of the four legged friend with such a minimum of lines that these come out as cartoonish as the classic cartoons of the 1940s-50s.

05/07/2023

Happy Spring, Everyone! I do not spend much time on FB anymore, as you can see. But I thought I should post something just to let you know that we are still around and busy, busy, busy drawing for our regular clients, especially all summer. Here are a few photos from recent events including a small university in Iowa that has been finding us to be very popular with their students. We are doing a lot of gigs in Minneapolis-St. Paul but also out-state around Minnesota, and in Western Wisconsin/Northwestern Wisconsin and Iowa. Cheers!

06/07/2022

We are almost as busy again as we were 3 years ago before the whole world shut down! Not choosing to do as many high school all night grad parties now that we are on more normal hours. We used to love doing them when we were night owls but these days we are actually sleeping at night so doing two weeks or more of all nighters was getting too hard physically. Not the staying up late, but trying to get back onto a more normal schedule after the grad season! Here are a few photos from the party we did this weekend.

09/26/2021

06/24/2021

By Dian, June 2021.

06/24/2021

We especially love to draw at events like this one last weekend where we get to do a lot of kids with their parents. This boy was too cool to let his mom put her arm around him and removed it, but I replaced it in the caricature drawing. Wish I had thought of leaving room for her fingertips to come around the front of his arm but it sufficed.

06/21/2021

From the festival we drew at this weekend...

06/20/2021

Dian with the beauty queens! And audience.

06/20/2021

I don't post many photos from events anymore because there are THOUSANDS of them below from earlier years, including recent years, and it takes a lot of time to resize them to where FB can upload them. But here are a few from this month's gigs! Finally back to work after the long pandemic break.

03/09/2021

Many young artists and a few old ones think of caricature drawing as a "feat" or a "trick" or a "stunt." They fail to grasp that it has to go way beyond that, to be something that actually conveys and communicates an IDEA and a FEELING where the act totally merges with whatever mechanical or physical skills are needed to put it across.

Fred Astaire said it was ‘the greatest dancing he had ever seen on film’

01/30/2021

Here's a sneak preview of a full length movie I'm working on, the first 35 minutes. It's meant mainly for art educators but is "edutainment" enough for anyone at all interested in caricature as a comic art medium, comics in general, cartoons, media studies or comedy. Take a look! Give it a like. Subscribe so you can see the finished movie when it's done.
https://youtu.be/Et1-MDdkOXk

This is a test pre-release of the first 35 minutes of a full-length movie that is the first in a series of several by 50-year-practitioner and scholarly sage...