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Robert Grossman, illustrator who caricatured presidents and designed Airplane! poster, dies at 78
Robert Grossman, illustrator who caricatured presidents and designed ‘Airplane!’ poster, dies at 78
By Harrison Smith March 20
harrison.smith@washpost.com
Robert Grossman, a prodigious illustrator and caricaturist who created a surreal movie poster for “Airplane!” and used the airbrush as an artistic lance, lampooning presidents from Richard M. Nixon to Donald Trump in gorgeous magazine covers and acerbic comic strips, died March 15 at his home in Manhattan. He was 78.
Mr. Grossman was found dead on Friday morning and was believed to have died of congestive heart failure the previous night, said his son Alex Emanuel Grossman.
A painter, cartoonist, sculptor and artist of the airbrush, Mr. Grossman designed book and record covers and contributed illustrations to a ream of publications, including Rolling Stone, Time, Mother Jones, the Nation, the New York Observer and New York magazine.
He created a comic about a black superhero (Captain Melanin) in the 1960s; received an Academy Award nomination in 1978 for “Jimmy the C,” a claymation short in which President Jimmy Carter sang Ray Charles’s version of “Georgia on My Mind”; and devised the promotional poster for the 1980 satirical disaster film “Airplane!,” painting a jetliner whose fuselage had somehow twisted itself into a knot.
A 1972 magazine cover by Mr. Grossman, caricaturing President Richard M. Nixon and his national security adviser, Henry Kissinger. (Robert Grossman)
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Harrison Smith is a reporter on The Washington Post's obituaries desk. Since joining the obituaries section in 2015, he has profiled big-game hunters, fallen dictators and Olympic champions. He sometimes covers the living as well, and previously co-founded the South Side Weekly, a community newspaper in Chicago. Follow @harrisondsmith
By Harrison Smith March 20
harrison.smith@washpost.com
Robert Grossman, a prodigious illustrator and caricaturist who created a surreal movie poster for “Airplane!” and used the airbrush as an artistic lance, lampooning presidents from Richard M. Nixon to Donald Trump in gorgeous magazine covers and acerbic comic strips, died March 15 at his home in Manhattan. He was 78.
Mr. Grossman was found dead on Friday morning and was believed to have died of congestive heart failure the previous night, said his son Alex Emanuel Grossman.
A painter, cartoonist, sculptor and artist of the airbrush, Mr. Grossman designed book and record covers and contributed illustrations to a ream of publications, including Rolling Stone, Time, Mother Jones, the Nation, the New York Observer and New York magazine.
He created a comic about a black superhero (Captain Melanin) in the 1960s; received an Academy Award nomination in 1978 for “Jimmy the C,” a claymation short in which President Jimmy Carter sang Ray Charles’s version of “Georgia on My Mind”; and devised the promotional poster for the 1980 satirical disaster film “Airplane!,” painting a jetliner whose fuselage had somehow twisted itself into a knot.
A 1972 magazine cover by Mr. Grossman, caricaturing President Richard M. Nixon and his national security adviser, Henry Kissinger. (Robert Grossman)
....
Harrison Smith is a reporter on The Washington Post's obituaries desk. Since joining the obituaries section in 2015, he has profiled big-game hunters, fallen dictators and Olympic champions. He sometimes covers the living as well, and previously co-founded the South Side Weekly, a community newspaper in Chicago. Follow @harrisondsmith
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Bado's blog: The Art of Robert Grossman
From Drew Friedman's blog, a sample of the work of cartoonist Robert Grossman.
The Sunday Times, June 17, 1973
Rolling Stone, May 4, 2006
Bado's blog: The Art of Robert Grossman
From Drew Friedman's blog, a sample of the work of cartoonist Robert Grossman.
The Sunday Times, June 17, 1973
Rolling Stone, May 4, 2006
How America Made Donald Trump Unstoppable
By Matt Taibbi
February 24, 2016
Rolling Stone Cover Illustration by Robert Grossman
By Matt Taibbi
February 24, 2016
Rolling Stone Cover Illustration by Robert Grossman
