Herblock Remembered Ten Years After His Passing

There's a slideshow here with a super-obnoxious commercial before-hand that has about a half-dozen photos of the late cartoonist Herblock worth viewing (there are about ten total); the gallery of cartoons at the Washington Post also has a commercial in front of it, but if you can stand it, it's also worth watching. He is recalled by fellow staffers and fellow former staffers in a prose article with no video commercial at all here. You might start with this blog post by Michael Cavna, or read that and skip the other three altogether (it depends on the strength of your interest, I suppose). Or you can skip that stuff altogether and just look at this fun and funny Mussolini cartoon.

I'm not exactly certain how Herblock will be remembered by those that remember figures like that beyond a decade or so after they pass. His powerful identification as a force within the Washington Post will likely diminish as the eminence of that institution as a cultural force either fades or shifts emphases. My hunch is that in the long-term when Herblock is remembered at all it will be as an extremely capable cartoonist but also a highly rewarded one, a man emblematic of a time when cartoonists settled in at major papers and became the kind of figures that gave out awards, had their photos taken with colleagues reading their new books, and received accolades from presidents. I'm certain there will continue to be cartoonists with strong careers at solid journalistic enterprises, but I can't imagine anyone starting out right now having the kind of career Herblock had, or leaving behind the stock-fueled fortune he did upon his passing.
 
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