KARA

BARNARD

 

Kara Barnard began cartooning at the age of 2 in 1964, crayon on wall experimentation.  

 

In 1967 she was discovered by an incredibly beautiful 17 year old woman that always dressed in bib overalls, drew really well, smelled really good and wrote for the high school paper, "The Cardinal” 

 

Kara's cartoons, often depicting young girls playing football, were first published in the Cardinal in 1968. 

 

Throughout the 1970’s Kara drew ads for the local newspaper, defaced property with her artwork and sketched irreverent cartoons of the preacher and the choir from the balcony of the Baptist Church. 

    

Kara studied art briefly at Indiana University.  It was during this period of time, circa 1980, that her cartoons were featured regularly in several gay and lesbian publications including Chicago’s Windy City Times.

 

Kara has gone on to illustrate books, paint murals, draw maps (she’s well known for her ‘cartoon cartography”) and sketch a thousand (+ or -) caricatures of complete strangers. 

 

In her other life, Kara is known as a musician and has toured with many artists including Tret Fure, Jamie Anderson, Wishing Chair and Tory Trujillo.  She played several shows and a lot of poker with Ferron one summer but Ferron has no recollection of this.