Arts & Culture
Jewcy: Cartoonist Gerardo Blumenkrantz
By tahlraz / December 23, 2008
The best cartoonists, political or otherwise, can powerfully shape opinion with an unpredicatable employment of both levity and darkness — sometimes all at once in a singular image. With cartoonists like Pat Oliphant or Tom Toles, you can never be sure whether they’ll tickle or smack you across the face.
When it comes to tickling and smacking specifically the Jewish world, I’ve recently discovered Gerardo Blumenkrantz, whose talents are reminscent of our own Eli Valley. He’s one to watch.
For a little taste of Mr. Blumenkrantz’s work, a light and sweet Brooklyn Chanukah card followed by a couple of dark jabs:
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Buen descubrimiento el de Tahl Raz, o por lo menos las ilustraciones que anota de Blumenkrantz, son pertinentes, desde Brookling hasta Temuco.
What an impressive artist and commentator…..I’d like to see Gerardo’s work in the New Yorker!
I love this guy, his humor is so off and so real. Bubbee’s last chanukah really gets to the point of a lost tradition through interfaith marriages.Â
 I’ve seen most, if not all of Gerardo’s work and these are great, but when you look at the entire body of work, you will see his humor and wrist are going to be a force in world of illustration. Way to go Gerardo…..
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