Sam Berman

Sam Berman

Sam Berman (born 1906) was a leading caricaturist of the 1940s and 1950s.

Berman was in high school when he began drawing cartoons for the "Hartford Courant". He went to New York to study art and then landed a position as a staff cartoonist for the "Newark Star Eagle". During the 1930s his political cartoons were published in color in "Collier's Weekly".

Films

He designed titles for "Nothing Sacred" (1937) and other films of the 1930s. During World War II he did a series depicting Nazi leaders.

Radio

After WWII, he did art for advertising agencies and created caricatures of leading radio performers, including his work for NBC's promotional book, "The NBC Parade of Stars as Seen by Sam Berman: As Heard over Your Favorite NBC Station" (1947). This featured a clear vinyl slipcase and a paper folder with the title printed in gold. The book displayed 44 caricatures of NBC radio personalities, including Fred Allen, Jack Benny, Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy, Milton Berle, George Burns and Gracie Allen, Judy Canova, Eddie Cantor, Jerry Colonna, Dennis Day, Bob Hope, Eddy Howard, H. V. Kaltenborn, Kay Kyser, Art Linkletter, Robert Merrill, Frank Sinatra and Red Skelton, as well as the stars of "Amos 'n' Andy", "A Date with Judy", "Dr. I. Q.", "The Great Gildersleeve", "Mr. District Attorney", "The Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show", "Truth or Consequences" and "Quiz Kids".

Books

His advertising art included a unique approach of caricaturing ordinary people, as seen in his series of ads for Pitney-Bowes. His children's books include "Shapes" (Scott Foresman, 1952) and "Dinosaur Joke Book" (Grosset & Dunlap, 1969).

As head of his own map-making firm, he created an unusual relief map, the six-foot Geo-Physical Globe. Berman later lived in Spain.

ee also

*List of caricaturists


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