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“elvis is king” is an illustrated children’s book that fans must see!

THIS IS AN UN­USUAL MOVE FOR ME in that I am pushing a product here on my Elvis – A Touch Of Gold blog. I didn’t go looking for a product to push; in fact, quite the op­po­site oc­curred. I was looking for im­ages for the se­ries of ar­ti­cles I am writing about the line of Elvis records on the Gold Stan­dard Se­ries. [Read more] ““elvis is king” is an illustrated children’s book that fans must see!”

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would elvis wear a mask during the coronavirus pandemic?

WOULD ELVIS WEAR A MASK DURING THIS PAN­DEMIC? I found an ar­resting photo of a young Elvis wearing a bandana-like mask with what ap­peared to be modern demon­stra­tors in the back­ground. I found the image on Elvis Rare Records, where the site’s owner, Dave Reynolds, had sent me re­garding an­other issue. [Read more] “would elvis wear a mask during the coronavirus pandemic?”

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elvis’ golden caricatures volume 9 (aloha from the ’70s)

THIS COL­LEC­TION OF IM­AGES of Elvis in the ’70s makes up “Elvis’ Golden Car­i­ca­tures Volume 9.” It is a col­lec­tion of art­work looking at the final years of Presley through the eyes of (mostly rel­a­tively) young car­i­ca­tur­ists from around the world. This is also the final volume of car­i­ca­tures that I have sched­uled at this time. [Read more] “elvis’ golden caricatures volume 9 (aloha from the ’70s)”

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elvis’ golden caricatures volume 8 (love letters from the 70s)

THE ELVIS OF THE ’70s in his fan­tas­tical jump­suits and ex­panding waist­line has found at­ten­tion from artists who seem de­ter­mined to give an ugly ren­di­tion of the man. Partly due to the many car­i­ca­tures of Elvis as grossly obese and sloppy-looking, many non-fans have it in their heads that he was gross and sloppy during his life. [Read more] “elvis’ golden caricatures volume 8 (love letters from the 70s)”

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the (unfortunately) enduring image of “fat elvis”

SAY “ELVIS IN THE ’70s” and a lot of people im­me­di­ately think “Fat Elvis.” This is partly due to car­i­ca­tures of Elvis as grossly obese, leading many non-fans to be­lieve that he was sloppy-looking during his life. This was not true: while his face puffed out and his waist­line ex­panded, Elvis never had the sloppy look one as­so­ciates with ex­cess fat in the stomach, the butt, the arms, or the legs. [Read more] “the (unfortunately) enduring image of “fat elvis””

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the first published caricature of elvis presley

THE FIRST CAR­I­CA­TURE OF ELVIS that I found was pub­lished in the July 6, 1956, issue of Col­lier’s mag­a­zine. Drawn by the inim­itable Al Hirschfeld. it was used to il­lus­trate a column crit­i­cizing the singer—or more ac­cu­rately, the singer’s fans. As this is an im­por­tant image, I have de­voted this ar­ticle to this drawing. [Read more] “the first published caricature of elvis presley”

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elvis’ golden caricatures volume 10 (elvis by alberto russo)

AL­BERTO “STING” RUSSO is one of the newer gen­er­a­tions of artists who have el­e­vated the art of car­i­ca­ture into a whole new realm. Russo com­bines a tra­di­tional fine art sen­si­bility with the use of com­puter tech­nology. He pro­duces por­traits that are timely, funny, often in­sightful, and just as often ar­resting as a work of art.

[Read more] “elvis’ golden caricatures volume 10 (elvis by alberto russo)”
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elvis’ golden caricatures volume 6 (wild in the 60s)

FROM 1960 THROUGH 1968, the image that Elvis Presley pre­sented to the public was some com­bi­na­tion of boy-next-door and movie-matinée-idol. In fact, the Elvis of these years comes close to re­al­izing the goody two-shoes/mama’s-boy image he was sad­dled with in some quarters!

Among car­i­ca­tur­ists, there isn’t as much in­terest in re-imagining this Elvis as there is in the Elvis the Pelvis of the ’50s and the jump-suited Elvis of the ’70s. [Read more] “elvis’ golden caricatures volume 6 (wild in the 60s)”

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elvis’ golden caricatures volume 4 (shaggin’ the ’50s)

ELVIS’ GOLDEN CAR­I­CA­TURES VOLUME 4 fea­tures still more im­ages of Presley hoppin’ and a-boppin’ in the ’50s—or at least how mostly modern artists viewed Elvis and the decade! De­spite this being the fourth volume, there is ab­solutely no drop-off in quality!

For more in­for­ma­tion on the art of car­i­ca­tures, refer to the first volume of this se­ries of ar­ti­cles. [Read more] “elvis’ golden caricatures volume 4 (shaggin’ the ’50s)”