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Mon Sep 1, 2025, 06:10 PM Sep 2025

It is to laugh - Herblock - A Giant whose shoulders the best today stand on

For those too young, Herb Block was THE political cartoonist a lot of us grew up reading in a number of newspapers for decades. Alive today and he could be hated even more by trump and the republicans than he was then by those from Truman to Bush 1. This shows how "everything old " is new again!

Amazing how times haven't changed...


















































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It is to laugh - Herblock - A Giant whose shoulders the best today stand on (Original Post) 3825-87867 Sep 2025 OP
K&R & thanks! tblue37 Sep 2025 #1
What an amazing compilation. What an amazing artist, decades of work. enough Sep 2025 #2
Thank you, this is wonderful. Diamond_Dog Sep 2025 #3
He was one of the... 2naSalit Sep 2025 #4
I grew up on Herblock! NewLarry Sep 2025 #5
The More Things Change... BurnDoubt Sep 2025 #6

enough

(13,677 posts)
2. What an amazing compilation. What an amazing artist, decades of work.
Mon Sep 1, 2025, 06:29 PM
Sep 2025

At this point this belongs in something other than “humor.” Thanks so much for putting this together!

2naSalit

(99,366 posts)
4. He was one of the...
Mon Sep 1, 2025, 07:28 PM
Sep 2025

First political cartoonists that I really followed. Thanks for posting!

BurnDoubt

(1,311 posts)
6. The More Things Change...
Tue Sep 2, 2025, 05:34 PM
Sep 2025

The Worse They Get.


Thanks for this compilation. It's a reminder not to forget we're sleeping with an Anaconda.
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