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Herbert Lawrence Block, commonly known as Herblock (October 13, 1909 – October 7, 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.
Block was the youngest of three boys born in Chicago to a Catholic mother, Theresa Lupe Block, and a father of Jewish descent, David Julian Block, a chemist and electrical engineer.
His brother Rich became president of an industrial laundry, and his brother Bill was a newspaper reporter for the Chicago Tribune and later for the Chicago Sun.
He began taking classes at the Art Institute of Chicago when he was eleven, winning a scholarship there at age 12. He adopted the "Herblock" signature in high school. After graduating in 1927, he attended Lake Forest College for almost two years, where he majored in English and political science.
Herblock said that his family was conservative and that his father voted for Herbert Hoover in 1928.[citation needed]
Late in his second year at Lake Forest College, Herblock was hired — after submitting some cartoons he had done in high school and college for the Evanston News-Index — to replace the Chicago Daily News' departing editorial cartoonist. He never returned to school. His first cartoon for the Daily News (April 24, 1929) advocated conservation of America's forests.
Block moved to Cleveland in 1933 to become the staff cartoonist for Newspaper Enterprise Association, which distributed his cartoons nationally. With the onset of the Great Depression, Block became a supporter of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal. In his cartoons, he pointed out the dangers of Soviet aggression, the growing Nazi menace, and opposed American isolationists.
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Herbert Lawrence Block, commonly known as Herblock (October 13, 1909 – October 7, 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.
Block was the youngest of three boys born in Chicago to a Catholic mother, Theresa Lupe Block, and a father of Jewish descent, David Julian Block, a chemist and electrical engineer.
His brother Rich became president of an industrial laundry, and his brother Bill was a newspaper reporter for the Chicago Tribune and later for the Chicago Sun.
He began taking classes at the Art Institute of Chicago when he was eleven, winning a scholarship there at age 12. He adopted the "Herblock" signature in high school. After graduating in 1927, he attended Lake Forest College for almost two years, where he majored in English and political science.
Herblock said that his family was conservative and that his father voted for Herbert Hoover in 1928.[citation needed]
Late in his second year at Lake Forest College, Herblock was hired — after submitting some cartoons he had done in high school and college for the Evanston News-Index — to replace the Chicago Daily News' departing editorial cartoonist. He never returned to school. His first cartoon for the Daily News (April 24, 1929) advocated conservation of America's forests.
Block moved to Cleveland in 1933 to become the staff cartoonist for Newspaper Enterprise Association, which distributed his cartoons nationally. With the onset of the Great Depression, Block became a supporter of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal. In his cartoons, he pointed out the dangers of Soviet aggression, the growing Nazi menace, and opposed American isolationists.