Anybody who reads the editorial and leisure & arts pages of the Wall Street Journal will know the work of the illustrator Ismael Roldan. Today’s edition carries the sad news that he has died at the age of 45. Roldan was also an occasional contributor to National Review. I never met him, but I feel a kinship because he provided images for some of my words. As the Journal says, his “lively drawings wittily captured the essence of his subjects while succinctly conveying the concept behind the accompanying articles.” The best way to remember him may be to look at what he did. Here’s his website. Here are a few of his caricatures: F. A. Hayek, Norman Podhoretz, and Tom Wolfe. This image of Reagan is excellent. I couldn’t find a stand-alone picture of WFB on his website, but he drew one to illustrate an article by Rick Brookhiser. R.I.P.