Karasik helped found the local Charter School, and has served on the board of the Permanent Endowment for M.V. In 1989 the couple took sabbaticals from their respective teaching jobs to spend time on the Island, and decided to stay. While living in Brooklyn, Karasik met his future wife, artist Marsha Winsryg. If the drawing is overwrought, you have to look at it too long, and the effect is diminished.” “There’s that instant where your mind combines both, along with your base of cultural knowledge, and your synapses connect. “Part of the fun is in absorbing an image and a caption,” says Karasik.
“But there’s a lot of work that goes into affecting casualness.” The artist confesses that he can spend weeks executing a single image in order to perfect the visual impact. “Part of the nature of cartoons is that they should not look overwrought,” he says. While the average cartoon may appear to be a quickly scrawled drawing with text, Karasik notes that the process is anything but simple. It was during his time with RAW that Karasik realized that he wanted to create cartoons, and so he broadened his drawing skills in order to translate his wit and humor to the visual realm. He studied graphic design, but soon realized that, as he puts it, “That was the last thing I wanted to do.” A class Karasik took with renowned cartoonist Art Speigelman led to a friendship between the two men and, eventually, to a job as associate editor of Speigelman’s groundbreaking comic’s anthology RAW magazine. “The Vineyard cartoons have less fang than some of my other work.”Īlthough he says that he has “read and loved and collected comics” all his life, Karasik did not start out as a cartoonist. Trotim - Giving Kay programming advice in Open Fortress infancy. Reddking - One of the first two people who supported Kay into creating Open Fortress, may he rest in peace. “You play to your readership,” says the cartoonist. Jabroni Brawl 3 Team - Their Support and being an awesome mod. Among the local subjects Karasik has had fun with are the Flying Horses carousel and Back Door Donuts, things he describes as requiring “insider knowledge” to appreciate. A number of the former are included in the current show. If you think neither theme lends itself to humor, a visit to the Film Center exhibit will prove you wrong.įor many years now, Karasik has been contributing cartoons to the Vineyard Gazette, and more text-heavy, narrative comics to the back pages of Martha’s Vineyard Magazine. The New Yorker cartoons comment on topics ranging from gun control to the potential demise of physical books. Karasik’s work has graced the pages of the New Yorker and the Nation, as well as Vineyard publications, and he will be showing original work from both national and local sources.
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