#herblock — Public Fediverse posts
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We work #DavidChase, #PeterThiel, #HoratioAlger & #Herblock into a review of a searing indictment of the #BabyBoomer generation. As if you need more reasons to read it. We review #BruceCannonGibney’s #AGenerationofSociopaths: http://the-agency-review.com/generation-of-sociopaths #sociology #history #culture
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Here's Pen Avenue, my cartoon for Print, Pittsburgh's East End newspaper, with a nod to two great cartoonists, Cy Hungerford and Herblock:
https://jaythurber.com/2025/11/22/pen-avenue-for-november-2025/
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Here's Pen Avenue, my cartoon for Print, Pittsburgh's East End newspaper, with a nod to two great cartoonists, Cy Hungerford and Herblock:
https://jaythurber.com/2025/11/22/pen-avenue-for-november-2025/
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‘PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC’ by #Herblock records the horrors of the Chinese suppression of student-led pro-democracy protests, when, on June 3 and 4, 1989, troops and tanks rolled into Tiananmen Square (Beijing) to violently crush the dissent. #tiananmensquare #Democracy #StudentProtests #Protests #EditorialCartoon #China #Democracy
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‘PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC’ by #Herblock records the horrors of the Chinese suppression of student-led pro-democracy protests, when, on June 3 and 4, 1989, troops and tanks rolled into Tiananmen Square (Beijing) to violently crush the dissent. #tiananmensquare #Democracy #StudentProtests #Protests #EditorialCartoon #China #Democracy
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Nikita Khrushchev and Mao Zedong with hammer and sickle, 1960
#Herblock portrays Communist China’s Mao Zedong and the Soviet Union’s Nikita Khrushchev seemingly united by the Soviet symbol of the hammer and sickle. However, by 1960, China and Russia were denouncing each other because of differences in ideology. Each leader, clenches his fist and glares at the other with a grim expression, enhanced by body language that indicates a face off between the two communist leaders. -
[Qaddafi, Hussein, Assad, and Khomeini each thinking of “the bomb”], 1984 Graphite, porous point pen, ink, opaque white, and overlays over blue pencil underdrawing
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The Library of Congress does some excellent curation of #Herblock cartoons, a great way to look through the Cold War: https://npg.si.edu/blog/closing-exhibition-herblock%E2%80%99s-presidents
https://loc.gov/exhibits/herblocks-history/about.html
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"On to Central America!"
On August 21, 1982, President Ronald Reagan ordered eighty Marines to Lebanon, and one month later he sent 1200 more. https://loc.gov/pictures/item/00652259/7
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“I Hereby Grant You Executive Clemency,” 1973. Published in the Washington Post, August 17, 1973.
https://loc.gov/exhibits/herblock-gallery/herblock-looks-at-1973.html
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''I Don't Know What I'd Do Without You, Mister'' - American cartoon published in ''The Washington Post'' (artist: Herbert Block), December 1947 #Herblock
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#PuckMagazine to me is THE example of pre-WW1 illustration, and a representation of a world and international system that stopped existing in WW1. #DieMuskete Magazine is for WW1 and early interwar. #JohnHeartfield is late Interwar. #KrokodilMagazine for WW2, and #Herblock for CW.
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#Herblock's work provides a great depth and variety for history of the 29th century from the Great Crash of 1929 to the election of George W Bush.
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Moscow Olympics 1980, July 19, 1978. Ink, graphite, crayon, porous point pen, and opaque white, over graphite and blue pencil underdrawing on paper. #Herblock
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'Out, Out, brief candle,' January 22, 1969 Ink, crayon, and opaque white over blue pencil underdrawing on layered paper Published by the Washington Post Prints & Photographs Division (14)
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In early August 1990 Iraqi soldiers under the direction of President Saddam Hussein invaded and annexed neighboring Kuwait, threatening Saudi Arabia and stranding more than 3,000 American citizens. #Herblock 'Welcome to the post-Cold-War era,' August 10, 1990
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''SLEEP, BABY, SLEEP'' - American cartoon (''The Washington Post'', artist: Herbert Block) portraying the Soviet Union as the personified Tsar Bomba, October 1961 #herblock
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History repeats.
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History repeats.
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Caricature showing #Herblock painting portraits of Bill C, Ronald R, Richard N, and Joseph M, all posed nude, Clinton and McCarthy are bashful of their nudity, whereas, Reagan and Nixon strike poses of a song and dance man and a muscleman respectively, seemingly ignoring his models, Herblock paints them as he sees them; just visible on the far left is a portrait of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
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#Herblock portrayed his John Q. Public figure in a gas mask, standing on a filthy planet Earth overwhelmed by toxic spills, polluted waterways, and unprecedented levels of air pollution, he was showing his support for the passage of the Clean Air A of 1970 and the creation of EPA
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Drawing Liberalism is now officially out and to help publicize the launch I answered some questions about the book for the UVA Press.
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We’re less than a week away from the official publication date of Drawing Liberalism and preorders are starting to arrive, so I thought I’d write a short thread about my book.
Drawing Liberalism is a book about several things, but at its heart is the work of #Herblock. For those unfamiliar with his career, Herbert Block was the Washington Post’s political cartoonist from 1946 until his death in 2001. His work for the Post covered almost every major issue of the second half of the 20th century. Among many other topics, he regularly drew about issues including the U.S. economy, civil rights, environmentalism, the influence of special interests, corruption, and gun control.
Like many Americans of his generation, Block was a proponent of postwar liberalism, a normative set of values and assumptions that believed a benevolent but activist and expansive federal government could shape society by keeping in check the worst excesses of capitalism.
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Was away between Christmas and New Year but came home to find a late Christmas gift from the University of Virginia Press. It’s somewhat surreal holding a physical copy but the Press has done an amazing job with it! #herblock #ComicsStudies
