Carlo de Fornaro

He was raised in Italy and Switzerland, then studied architecture in Zurich and painting at the Royal Academy of Munich.

[6][2] He came to the US as a young man and began his career as a newspaper caricaturist, first in Chicago for the Times-Herald, then in New York for the Herald, Morning Telegraph, World, and Evening Sun.

[6] They became involved in radical politics, and joined the opposition to Mexico's president Porfirio Díaz.

[7] He returned to New York in 1909, and published his Diaz, Czar of Mexico: an arraignment, which led to a trial for criminal libel against a nonresident by the editor of the Mexican newspaper El Imparcial.

[10] He was also invited to a dinner at Joel's Bohemia on October 4, 1910,[10] and in that year drew caricatures for that restaurant's celebrity wall.