Herblock

Also known as Herbert Block, Herbert L. Block, Herb Block

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.

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Comics creator.image: Herblock portrait.jpg
Comics creator.caption: Block likely in the 1950s
Comics creator.alt: Block smiling
Comics creator.birth_name: Herbert Lawrence Block
Comics creator.birth_place: Chicago, Illinois, United States
Comics creator.death_place: Washington, D.C., United States
Comics creator.area: Cartoonist
Comics creator.alias: Herblock
Comics creator.notable works: Editorial cartoonsHerblock Prize

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date of birth: 1909-10-13
date of death: 2001-10-07
nickname: Herblock
birth name: Herbert Lawrence Block
pseudonym: Herblock
start of work period: 1929-00-00
end of work period: 2001-00-00

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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
See also
References
Further reading
External links

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.