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Your cover would make Charles Addams happy, Dorian Gray jealous, and Herblock anxious...
...forceful-and liberal-brush of the Washington Post's editorial cartoonist Herbert L. Block is ever at the ready to assault Herblock's favorite target: the conservative. Artistic discipline generally keeps his passionate partiality within decent bounds (although he once showed former Vice President Richard M. Nixon crawling out of a sewer). But last week, as he sighted in on conservative U.S. Senator (and heir to Phoenix's Goldwaters department store) Barry M. Goldwater, nothing held Herblock back. He got off one of the lowest blows in his editorial-cartooning career...
WHAT'S GOT YOUR BACK UP? by Bill Mouldin (146 pp.; Harper; $3.95). Herblock is clearly Mauldin's master and Daumier his god; this collection of his work proves that he has edged past the one and is moving determinedly, in quality of line and force of wit, toward the other. The best cartoon book of the season...
...give Nast credit for deflating the "image" of Boss Tweed without giving equal credit to Herblock for deflating the "image" of the late sawdust Caesar from Wisconsin, you make a great error of omission...
...best of these is the Washington Post and Times Herald's liberal Herbert Block (Herblock), 51, an implacable, fire-breathing enemy of all conservatives; he once drew Richard M. Nixon climbing out of a sewer. Herblock was slowed down by a 1959 heart attack, and later by his respect for John F. Kennedy. But the Herblock brickbats still land with thudding regularity-even if they rarely hit the Administration. England's David Low, whose brilliant wartime cartoons nominated him as the greatest cartoonist of the century, is far off form at 70. "The war," observed a Low friend...