Drawing the candidates...

If pictures are really worth a thousand words, anxious campaign staffers must face an additional worry as they peruse the papers each morning. What mocking sketch will the political cartoonists deliver today?

This fascinating New York Times piece asks four illustrators how they nail those perfect caricatures. Whose head looks like a keg of pilsner? Who has latent Nixon chromosomes? And who's been labelled as pre-Lincolnesque? Find out the story behind the pictures here.

Alice Fishburn