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The Herblock Award was last week in which Matt Bors was honored for his editorial cartooning. Below is his speech.Michael Cavna attended and has posted a write-up.

Congratulations are in order for Matt Bors who was named this year’s Herblock Prize winner. Matt is syndicated based out of Portland and also Comics Journalism co-editor of Cartoon Movement.The Herblock Prize honors editorial cartoonists “preserving the rights of the American people through freedom of speech and the right of expression.” As the winner, Matt […]

I’m currently working on a series for kids about Theodore Roosevelt and conservation, and, as part of that, was going through political cartoons of the era.This two page spread by Puck cartoonist L.M. Glackens ran in that publication in 1906, when William Randolph Hearst was a candidate for governor of New York (click on it […]

Herblock had little patience for Barry Goldwater’s pull-yourselves-up-by-your-bootstraps attitude towards the poor, and expresses it in straightforward fashion with this 1961 broadside.God knows what he’d make of Mitt Romney. Of course, Mitt didn’t inherit a department store. He didn’t even inherit a car company. We don’t pass on actual businesses to our children anymore. When […]

The Washington Post is commemorating the 10 year anniversary of the passing their editorial cartoonist Herb Block (or Herblock) who drew for the paper for 55 years before passing in 2001. Donald E. Graham remembers visiting Herblock in the hospital in August 2001. Block was 91 and still drawing five cartoons a week. The publisher […]

Politico has written a pretty good profile of Washington Post editorial cartoonist Tom Toles. Turner hired him part time as a caricature artist and, after a few months, started nudging him toward editorial cartoons. “I said ‘No, I don’t want to do that,’” Toles recalled. “‘I don’t have the skills. I don’t have the interest. […]

ComicsDC’s Mike Rhode has posted a response from Signe Wilkinson and Matt Wuerker regarding how the judging went down this year for the Herblock Award. In the spirit of transparency, we’d like to lift the veil a little on the thinking that went into our judging this year. Think of this as a little WikiLeak […]

The Herblock Foundation has announced that this year’s winner is Washington Post editorial cartoonist Tom Toles. Tom has been with the Post since 2002, taking the reins from Herblock himself who retired in 2001. Previous to the Post, Toles worked for The Buffalo News, The Buffalo Courier-Express, The New York Daily News, The New Republic […]

Tom Toles has won the Herblock Prize for editorial cartooning, which is particularly sweet given that he took over Herb Block’s spot at the Washington Post after that legendary cartoonist’s death.The Post is also home to one of the better comics columns and Michael Cavna’s write-up on this is the definitive report, and, best of […]

The Kentucky Gateway Museum Center will host a new Herblock exhibit entitled From Crayons to Cartoons on Jan. 22. Also featured are former Ledger Independent cartoonists James Mulcahy and John Van Meter. Herb Block worked at the Chicago Daily News before going to the Washington Post in 1946. He worked at The Post under five […]