Herblock Through the Looking Glass

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc, 1984. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. very good/good. 287, [1] pages, profusely illus., some wear to DJ edges. Some edge soiling. Inscribed by the author. Herbert Lawrence Block, commonly known as Herblock (October 13, 1909 - October 7, 2001), was an American editorial cartoonist and author best known for his commentaries on national domestic and foreign policy. During the course of a career stretching into nine decades, he won three Pulitzer Prizes for editorial cartooning (1942, 1954, 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. He began taking classes at the Art Institute of Chicago when he was eleven, and adopted the "Herblock" signature in high school. He won his first Pulitzer Prize in 1942, then spent two years in the Army doing cartoons and press releases. Upon discharge Block became chief editorial cartoonist for The Washington Post, where he worked until his death 55 years later. Block's cartoons were syndicated to newspapers around the world by Creators Syndicate from 1987 until his death in 2001. Political cartoons (also known as editorial cartoons) are defined as illustrations or comic strips containing a political or social message that usually relates to current events or personalities. Political cartoons and text on Ronald Reagan. "Herblock is the most perceptive political analyst in America he writes as well as he draws, in lucid, trenchant English. His comments, in drawings and in prose, are hard-hitting but never nasty. He's a national treasure." Philadelphia Inquirer. America's foremost political cartoonist on the Reagan years in words and pictures fourteen chapters illustrated with 490 cartoons by the tree-time Pulitzer Prize winner.