{{Short description|American illustrator and cartoonist}} {{Infobox comics creator | image = | caption = | alt = | birth_name = | birth_place = New Bedford, Massachusetts, U.S. | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1936|01|30}} | death_date = | death_place = | nationality = American | area = | cartoonist = y | website = | spouse = Leann | notable works = ''Chicken Gutz'' }} '''Randall Enos''' (born January 30, 1936) is an American illustrator and cartoonist.
Enos was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts.<ref name=Autobio>{{cite web |url=http://www.randallenos.com/bio.html |title=The Biography of Randall Enos |author=Randall Enos |work=Official website |publisher=Randall Enos |access-date=December 26, 2014 |archive-date=November 6, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161106222645/http://www.randallenos.com/bio.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> Throughout his career, which began in the 1960s, Enos has worked mostly in linocuts.<ref name=Mystic>{{cite web |url=https://store.mysticseaport.org/prints/randall-enos |title=Randall Enos |publisher=Mystic Seaport |access-date=December 27, 2014}}</ref><ref name=Paccia>{{cite web |url=http://david-wasting-paper.blogspot.com/2010/04/randall-enos-cartoonistartist-survey.html |title=Randall Enos - Cartoonist/Artist Survey #116 |author=David Paccia |date=April 27, 2010 |work=David Wasting Paper |access-date=December 27, 2014}}</ref>
Enos's work has appeared in the ''National Lampoon'' (where he produced the monthly strip ''Chicken Gutz'' in the 1970s),<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.marksverylarge.com/ |title=November 2014 |author=Mark Simonson |date=November 2014 |work=Mark's Very Large National Lampoon Site |access-date=December 27, 2014}}</ref><ref name=Heller>{{cite web |url=http://www.printmag.com/daily-heller/chicken-gutz-is-not-a-meal-interview-with-randall-enos/ |title=Chicken Gutz is Not a Meal |author=Steven Heller |date=September 16, 2013 |work=Print |access-date=December 27, 2014}}</ref> ''The Nation'',<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.thenation.com/article/madame-president-gets-3am-phone-call |title=Madame President Gets the 3am Phone Call... |author=Randall Enos |date=May 26, 2008 |magazine=The Nation |access-date=December 27, 2014}}</ref> the ''New York Times'',<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/04/jobs/04wcol.html?8dpc |title=Part 'Survivor,' Part 'Apprentice,' All Reality |author=Lisa Belkin |others=Randall Enos (illustrator) |date=June 4, 2006 |work=New York Times |access-date=December 27, 2014}}</ref> ''Playboy'', ''Time'', ''Sports Illustrated'', ''The Atlantic'', ''Rolling Stone'' and other publications.<ref name=Paccia/> His work is syndicated by Cagle Cartoons.
Enos has taught at colleges and art schools<ref name=Mystic/> including Parsons School of Design, Philadelphia University of the Arts, RISD, Syracuse University, and others<ref name=Paccia/> and has illustrated many books, including children's books. Enos, who (being from New Bedford) is interested in whaling history<ref name=Autobio/> and collects whaling memorabilia,<ref name=Paccia/> collaborated with Brian Heinz on the 2014 book ''Mocha Dick'', contributing his abstract-folkish visual interpretations<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/08/the-whale-that-inspired-moby-dick-swims-again/378903/ |title=The Whale That Inspired Moby Dick Swims Again |author=Steven Heller |date=August 21, 2014 |work=The Atlantic |access-date=December 27, 2014}}</ref> to the picture-book, a depiction of the historical whale which inspired the novel ''Moby Dick''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.brainpickings.org/tag/randall-enos/ |title=Mocha Dick: The Story of the Real-Life Whale That Inspired Moby-Dick, Illustrated |author=Maria Popova |date=July 14, 2014 |work=Brain Pickings |access-date=December 27, 2014}}</ref>
== Controversy == Enos caused controversy when a cartoon of his was published in the ''Bennington Banner'' following the 2017 Las Vegas shooting that depicted a pile of bodies with the caption "What happens in Vegas..." The paper later apologized for publishing the cartoon and stated that the cartoon was "insulting and in bad taste" and that "we regret and apologize for publishing the cartoon."<ref>Rutberg, Fredric D. [http://www.benningtonbanner.com/stories/a-statement-on,520994 "LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT: To our readers: We are sorry,"] ''Bennington Banner'' (Oct. 3, 2017).</ref>
== Awards == Enos was nominated for the 2010 Advertising Illustration Award given by the National Cartoonist Society for his artwork promoting a revival of ''The Norman Conquests''.<ref name=Paccia/>
== Personal life == He lives on a horse farm in Connecticut with his wife Leann.<ref name=Paccia/> His grandson, Klay, is a painter in New York.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Randy Enos – DarylCagle.com |url=https://darylcagle.com/topic/randy-enos/ |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20230131044429/https://darylcagle.com/topic/randy-enos/ |archive-date=2023-01-31 |access-date=2025-12-26 |website=DarylCagle.com |language=en-US}}</ref>
==Books illustrated== {{Expand list|date=December 2014}} * Seligson, Marcia; Gerberg, Mort; Corman, Avery (1967). ''You Have a Hang-Up If...:All About the Kookiness in People's Heads Today.'' Randall Enos (illustrator). Essandess Special Editions, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc. *{{cite book |author=(Uncredited)|others=Randall Enos (illustrator) |title=Getting the Best of Stress |date=October 1998 |publisher=Dartnell |isbn=978-0850133431}} *{{cite book |last=Ald |first=Roy |others=Randall Enos (illustrator) |date=1968 |title=The Cheerful Cat Cookbook |publisher=Essandess Special Editions}} *{{cite book |last=Seaver |first=Joann Tuttle |others=Randall Enos (illustrator) |date=1974 |title=Workshop: I Hate Hats |publisher=D.C. Heath & Co. |isbn=978-0669878585}} *{{cite book |last=Supraner |first=Robyn |others=Randall Enos (illustrator) |date=1976 |title=It's not fair! |publisher= F. Warne }} *{{cite book |editor-last=Kelly |editor-first=Sean |others=Randall Enos, et al (illustrators) |date=1976 |title=National Lampoon Songbook |publisher=Cherry Lane Music Company}} *{{cite book |last=Reiser |first=Judy |others=Randall Enos (illustrator) |date=1980 |title=And I Thought I Was Crazy! Quirks, Idiosyncrasies and Meshugaas |publisher=Simon & Schuster |isbn=978-0671253998 |url=https://archive.org/details/andithoughtiwasc00reis }} *{{cite book |last=Avalos |first=Cecilia |others=Randall Enos (illustrator) |date=1992 |title=Yo Puedo Tambien - I Can Do It Too |series=Coleccion Iguana |publisher=Scholastic |isbn=978-0590260381}} {{in lang|es}} *{{cite book |last=Phillips |first=Nathan |others=Randall Enos (illustrator) |date=1996 |title=Bird and Lizard |series=Watch Me Read |publisher=Houghton Mifflin |isbn=978-0395766545 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/birdlizard0000phil }} *{{cite book |last=Menschell |first=Mindy |others=Randall Enos (illustrator) |date=1997 |title=Old Jack Fold |series=Spotlight Books, Phonics Books Grade 1, Level 5 Unit 2 |publisher=Macmillan McGraw-Hill |isbn=978-0021821235}} *{{cite book |last=Goodman |first=Gary S. |others=Randall Enos (illustrator) |date=1997 |title=Telemarketing for Non-Telemarketers |publisher=Dartnell |isbn=978-0850132984 |url=https://archive.org/details/telemarketingfor0000good }} *{{cite book |last=Pinczes |first=Elinor J. |others=Randall Enos (illustrator) |date=2002 |title=My Full Moon is Square |publisher=Houghton Mifflin Books for Children |isbn=978-0618154890 |url=https://archive.org/details/myfullmoonissqua00pinc }} *{{cite book |last=Pinczes |first=Elinor J. |others=Randall Enos (illustrator) |date=2003 |title=Inchworm and A Half |publisher=HMH Books for Young Readers |isbn=978-0618311019 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/inchwormandhalf0000pinc }} *{{cite book |last=Higgins |first=Maxwell |others=Randall Enos (illustrator) |date=2004 |title=How Paul Bunyan Made Crater Lake |publisher=Sundance Publishing |isbn=978-0760878125}} *{{cite book |last=Heinz |first=Brian |others=Randall Enos (illustrator) |date=2014 |title=Mocha Dick: The Legend and Fury |publisher=Creative Editions |isbn=978-1568462424 |url=https://archive.org/details/mochadicklegendf0000hein }}
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== *[http://chickengutz.blogspot.com/ Chicken Gutz]
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