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...hard to describe this book, or Herblock's cartoons in general. The beat thing would be to say: "Buy it! Read it! Treasure it! Give it to all your friends...
...Herblock so wonderful? What is it that makes his work so much greater than anything you can think of? The answer is fairly simple. He describes events of the day in terms of their real significance, stripped of pretension, rationalization, or downright deception...
...hypocrisy of our stand. Documented proof that we were really interested in the people directly affected would disguise the fact that, no matter how we felt about that, oil was more important. And what simple denunciation of our policy would have the force of this cartoon? from The Herblock Book, Beacon Press...
...Newspaper Guild's Heywood Broun memorial award, for journalism "in the spirit" of Crusader Broun. Despite threats from anti-Negro hoodlums, Poston covered the Florida trial of three Negroes charged with rape. The Broun jury gave another "first prize" to the Washington Post's Herbert L. Block ("Herblock"), 40, for his pointed, powerful cartoons (TIME...
...Post, Herblock works behind the closed door of a cluttered, dusty cubbyhole. After a morning spent reading the papers, pacing, brooding and doodling, he makes rough sketches of three or four ideas. When he shows them to Editor Herbert Elliston, he always puts his own favorite on top. Elliston usually agrees. Block's ideas come hard. Says he: "Cartooning isn't inspirational at all. It's more like laying bricks...