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Illustration for front panel of dust jacket shows a self-portrait of Herbert Block sitting at his drawing table working on editorial cartoons with an hourglass in the foreground; in the background are caricatures of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and Bill Clinton.

Herblock Looks at 1974: Fifty Years Ago in Editorial Cartoons

Posted by: Melissa Lindberg

The following is a guest post by Helena Zinkham, Chief, and Sara W. Duke, Curator of Popular and Applied Graphic Arts, Prints & Photographs Division. Politically independent and a champion of the little guy, Herbert L. Block (1909–2001)—better known as “Herblock”—spared no one from the wrath of his art. His pointed commentaries offer an opportunity …