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Ken Fallin
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Ken Fallin (born November 11, 1948 in Jacksonville, Florida) is an American illustrator and caricaturist. His first big break was in 1983 doing the posters and advertising for the popular satirical revue Forbidden Broadway. In 1987, he was commissioned by the Boston Herald to do a celebrity caricature every week in the Sunday theatre section.
Fallin has illustrated roughly 500 notable people for the Wall Street Journal, including President Barack Obama, Paul Newman and Tim Russert for Peggy Noonan's memorial of the newsman in the paper.
His Forbidden Broadway posters promoted the show in London, Tokyo and Sydney.
Outside of entertainment, Fallin developed relationships with corporate clientele, particularly American Express, which engaged him on several national media campaigns as well as private work. Belvedere Vodka hired him to turn famous icons like the Playboy Bunny and Quentin Tarantino into bottles of the alcohol. Other clients have included HBO, Showtime and Walt Disney Productions.
On November 11, 1948, Kenneth Aubrey Fallin was born to Velma and Aubrey Fallin. His mother taught elementary school and worked with special needs students. His father Aubrey enlisted as a Marine in World War II and fought on Iwo Jima; his later career was in veterinary medicine.
Fallin attended Robert E. Lee High School in Jacksonville and graduated from Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts in 1974.
Wanting to become an actor, Fallin moved to New York City, where he approached the writer of Forbidden Broadway about ideas for the show. From that initial meeting, Fallin's involvement with the show and the design of its poster art would last over twenty years.
He attended the Art Institute of Boston and Parsons School of Design, and studied drawing under famed cartoonist Mort Gerberg. He currently lives in New York City.
Fallin's career has spanned work in advertising, Broadway theatre, network television and, most notably, in print for publications such as InStyle and the Wall Street Journal.
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