The Old New Thing

Where do those Wall Street Journal hedcuts come from?

December 24, 2007 Dec 24, 2007 12/24/07

Raymond Chen

A few years ago, Marketplace radio looks at those portraits used by the Wall Street Journal, known as hedcuts. Believe it or not, these drawings are hand-done, not computer-generated. View the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery online exhibition to see, for example, how Steve Jobs's portrait has changed over the years...