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Article: Herblock through the looking glass.
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- National Review
- Article date:
- October 19, 1984
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THE CARTOONS of Herblock have always been distinguished by their prolixity. A typical Jeff MacNelly or Steve Kelley cartoon makes use of ten or twenty words; Herblock (actually Herbert Block) shoots for forty or fifty so often that a friend of mine in Washington jokes regularly. "Did you read Herblock today?" My usual reply: "I only had time to skim." I once counted 87 words in a single frame.
Herblock became an institution at the Woshington Post in the early Fifties, with his scowling caricatures of Joes McCarthy and Richard Nixon. He was the right man at the right time, in that it's doubtful he could have got or held the job in other circumstances. His ...