BRUSSELS, Jan 20: US President Barack Obama is too good looking to provide inspiration for cartoons in the same way George W. Bush served as fodder for some of their most biting commentary, a caricaturist on said on Tuesday.

“It’s never a gift for a caricaturist to draw a handsome man,” said Pierre Kroll, from Belgium, which prides itself on its comic book culture including Tintin.

“Somehow, we prefer overweight people, people with a beard, huge noses, ridiculous glasses ... If caricaturists could elect presidents, we would choose people with faces we enjoy drawing, and not a playboy like him,” said Kroll whose works appears in the Belgian daily ‘Le Soir’.

He said positive public sentiment towards the incoming US president might also make it harder for caricaturists.—Reuters