Herblock
Sign in to saveHerbert Lawrence Block, commonly known as Herblock (October13, 1909October7, 2001), was an American editorial cartoonist and author best known for his commentaries on national domestic and foreign policy.
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- Block likely in the 1950s
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- Herbert Lawrence Block
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- Chicago, Illinois, United States
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- Washington, D.C., United States
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- Cartoonist
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- Herblock
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- Editorial cartoonsHerblock Prize
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- Early life and education
- Career
- Personal life and death
- Honors
- Legacy: the Herb Block Foundation
- Exhibitions
- Books of collected cartoons by Herbert Block
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- References
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Herbert Lawrence Block, commonly known as Herblock (October13, 1909October7, 2001), was an American editorial cartoonist and author best known for his commentaries on national domestic and foreign policy.
During the course of a career stretching into nine decades, he won three Pulitzer Prizes for editorial cartooning (1942, 1954, and 1979), shared a fourth Pulitzer Prize in 1973 for Public Service on Watergate, the Presidential Medal of Freedom (1994), the National Cartoonist Society Editorial Cartoon Award in 1957 and 1960, the Reuben Award in 1956, the Gold Key Award (the National Cartoonists Society Hall of Fame) in 1979, and numerous other honors.