Fun Finds: Italian Caricature Cards, 1971.

Sometimes we wonder if the roller coaster of life will ever slow down enough to where we can take the time necessary to delve into one of the posts that is on deck, but never permitted to come to fruition! Work is still as busy as ever (and thanks to someone recently giving two weeks notice, is about to become even worse!) and evenings have been sucked up by a landslide of activities. I've been in rehearsals for a theatre excerpt which performs this weekend at a regional convention. So I'm going to be out of the loop for several days.

To bridge the gap a little, I'm sharing these cards. From a series called Once Upon a Time, they are from 1971, made in Italy, and feature caricatures of some of the movies' biggest stars. I actually am not a huge fan of caricatures as a rule. The artists always seem to zero in on some distinctive aspect of a face and distort it, often in an unflattering way.  My grandmother used to get so upset at newspaper political cartoons that offered up grotesque renditions of our Presidents. (I'd die if someone did one of me and can never understand why people go to theme parks and pay to have one done! LOL) Some of these are more flattering than others.  I believe only one of these folks is still alive today, though many of them were at the time of release. This collection isn't even half of them if the numbers on them are any representation. I'm presenting them in numerical order.