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

05/25/2025

We are still going strong and I'll try to get some photos of events we have done since last summer up soon. Facebook seems to be of very limited usefulness so I don't put much time into this page anymore, but just in case anyone looks here, I'll get some new posts up when I get a chance. Meanwhile, there are literally thousands of photos from years past below!

Meanwhile, something I never paid much attention to was our Google reviews. We have been actively inviting folks to do reviews for just the last few weeks. I do not know why they have us located out in the Pacific Ocean but the reviews are nice:

4.9 ★ · Artist

10/31/2024

Here's a performative caricature by Bobby Pickett, doing his "Monster Mash" on Dick Clark's TV show in the early 1960s. At first I found it painful to watch, imagining how hard he had to work to do it. But if you are familiar with Boris Karloff, this is really quite an outstanding caricature.

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08/10/2024

First chance all summer to get a few photos downloaded and resized so we can share them with you here!

08/10/2024

Dian and I specialize in super-simple, FAST caricature drawings. Most of the slow, overly embellished ones we see miss the whole point of what a caricature is. There is one exception: Saemee and AAron of "Caricature Party" at YouTube. We had the pleasure of meeting them a few years ago when they were traveling around the country and stopped in Minneapolis.

Their caricature drawings and their videos are GREAT! We highly recommend them. There aren't that many caricaturist couples, so we feel a special bond with them. Aaron was one of the few artists who expressed and interest in thinking about the philosophical side of caricature way back when I started a blog about caricature as a comic art medium, in about 2010. It was hopeless, no other "artists" were the least bit interested.

Their drawings are hilarious and true works of art with a capital A. They belong in art museums as well as in their role as performers and street entertainers, currently in Hawaii. Watch these videos, like and subscribe!

Hi! This is Saemee and AAron. We are Caricature Party! :)Here is our drawings with reactions part 6!Thank you for everyone who came get drawn and watch our v...

08/10/2024

THANK YOU, everyone who invited us back to draw at your events this summer! Will post some photos soon.

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!