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Political Punchlines: 'Herblock'

herblockbook-250.jpgTHURSDAY: America may revere its leaders and traditions, but we like to maintain a healthy disrespect. As long as we've had venerable institutions, cheeky artists have been around to make fun of them. Thus: the political cartoonist.

One of the finest was The Washington Post's cartoonist Herbert Block, better known as Herblock. The ardent liberal and four-time Pulitzer Prize-winner delighted in using his poison pen to skewer D.C.'s elite. None other than Katharine Graham wrote of him, "Since he arrived at The Post, five editors and five publishers have learned a cardinal rule: Don't mess with Herb."

Former colleague and friend Haynes Johnson will discuss Herblock's more than 70-year body of work and the biography he co-authored, "Herblock: The Life and Works of the Great Political Cartoonist" at Politics and Prose. The book includes a DVD containing more than 18,000 cartoons.

» Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW; Thu., Nov. 12, 7 p.m, free; 202-364-1919. (Van Ness)

Written by Express' Anne Polsky
Photo courtesy W.W. Norton & Co.

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