Saturday, January 18, 2025

This dandy imported rifle

  From Jason Lefkowitz


If you're unfamiliar with Herbert Block ("Herblock"), he was one of the all-time great editorial cartoonists. He took over the op-ed cartoon at the Washington Post in 1946 and filled it until his death in 2001. It was a Herblock cartoon that coined the term "McCarthyism."

I first came to Washington in 1993, when Block was still vigorously cartooning. His eye never softened or slackened. It was vital.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herblock

Herbert Block for the Washington Post, November 27, 1963. (Five days after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy by Lee Harvey Oswald.)


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