Making Fun of the President
Political cartoons are almost as old as newspapers. And poking fun of presidents, political leaders and politics is a mainstay of humor today.
Three-time Pulitzer prize winning cartoonist Herbert Block (”Herblock”), cartooned about politics starting with his first cartoon that appeared in the Chicago Daily News, back in 1929. The topics he covered early in his career included the aggressive pre-WW-II stance of the USSR and the growing concern of the rise of Nazi Germany.
In 1946, immediately after serving in WW-II, he joined the staff of the Washington Post where he worked until his death in 2001, at …read more
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