![]() ![]() He dropped out of college to take his first cartooning job with the Chicago Daily News at age 19. Herbert Block has been using the pen name "Herblock" since the age of thirteen, when he started contributing quips and comments to a humor column in the Chicago Tribune and apprenticed himself to the columnist. He also writes engagingly about personal incidents and meetings with public figures. He coined the word "McCarthyism" and describes that time of fear. Herb Block opposed isolationism before World War II warned of nuclear hazards in the '40s opposed McCarthyism in the '50s and racism in the '50s and '60s and zeroed in on Watergate in the '70s and Iran-contra and other Reagan-Bush scandals in the '80s. ![]() A Cartoonist's Life tells of the remarkable career that has spanned the era from Roosevelt to Clinton. ![]()
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