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...This "Herblock of the Bistros" is no successor to such satirists as Fred Allen, Sid Caesar, W. C. Fields or Will Rogers. "Back to the Borscht Belt" with Sahl and his egghead liberal left pseudo-comedy, actually witty political propaganda vended by a wiseacre...
...Denver Post, counts as one of the fingered few, and is probably the nation's hottest new cartooning property. He has already been given a semiofficial anointment as the heir apparent to the Washington Post and Times Herald's brilliant and club-wielding Herbert Block ("Herblock"). Since January, a Conrad cartoon has gone out each week, together with five Herblocks, to the 200 newspapers in Herblock's syndication...
...Talking Balloons. But Conrad is far different from Herblock. His cartoons are no fast-swept, brutal assaults. Conrad combines meticulous attention to detail with the powerful punch of simplicity. Hours of painstaking research go into a Conrad cartoon, with the result that a Conrad locomotive, for example, really looks like a locomotive-and could pass the technical muster of any engineer. A Conrad cartoon is readily digested at a glance. That glance, he feels certain, is all the reader will give it: "I figure eight seconds is the absolute maximum time anyone should have." Talking balloons almost never drift above...
...consulted a doctor. He said that it's perfectly logical for a man's appearance to change that way as he grows older." Besides, says Conrad, "the way I draw him, he is perfectly recognizable." Conrad can make Republican Richard Nixon look ridiculous without making him a Herblock subspecies. Similarly, he can show his own favorite, Stevenson, as a hilarious Mona Lisa...
Laid up since his heart attack last September, Herblock returned to duty, and with his first cartoon-a slashing assault on Nixon-set the style for the liberal Democrats' 1960 campaign (see cut). By an irony of timing, the caricature of Nixon as a monstrous male witch (in the past, Herblock has shown him as a sewer rat, a fanged beast and a gutter habitue) ran in the New York Post the same day that Nixon was receiving widespread praise elsewhere for his part in settling the steel strike...