Herbert block cartoons5/29/2023 ![]() This event takes place at NPG’s Nan Tucker McEvoy Auditorium on Friday, June 27, at 7:00 p.m. No reservations are required seating is first come, first served. NPG senior historian Sid Hart will lead a conversation with three Pulitzer Prize winners: reporter Haynes Johnson, historian Roger Wilkins, and cartoonist Tony Auth. The upcoming event, “Curator’s Conversation: Herblock: Drawn from Memory,” will focus on the life and work of one of the nation’s greatest political cartoonists. His particular interest in depicting American presidents is featured in the National Portrait Gallery’s new exhibition “ Herblock’s Presidents: ‘Puncturing Pomposity.’” The political cartoons of Herbert Lawrence Block (1909–2001), who was known by the pen name “Herblock,” appeared in American newspapers for more than seventy years. ![]() Block Collection, Prints & Photographs Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. October 24, 1973: "Look-Nice Tapes-Okay, Boy? Okay?"/ Herbert Lawrence Block/Pencil on paper/Herbert L. ![]()
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