Kranky's Kartoons

Editorial cartoons by internationally published cartoonist, Joseph Rank Year of birth - 1955 First published in - Rockford Register - Star, Rockford, Illinois, USA Year first published - 1994 Location - Grover Beach, CA, U.S.A. Hobbies - Professional harmonica player, blues singer, musician. Songwriting. Specific expertise - Editorial cartoons and off-the-wall gag cartoons. Big head caricatures. Influences: Many and varied. As a newspaper boy for the old Chicago Daily News, I have special regard for Bill Mauldin. Others in my panoply of mentors include Pat Oliphant, Herblock, the great British cartoonist David Low, Boardman Robinson, Robert Minor, Art Young, Jeff MacNelly, and Vaughan Shoemaker. Delacroix, Whistler, Homer, Goya, and the Wyeths have mention as well.