Editing Herblock (section)

==Career==
Block was the youngest of three boys born in Chicago to a Catholic mother, Theresa Lupe Block, and a father of Jewish descent, David Julian Block, a chemist and electrical engineer. His brother Rich became president of an industrial laundry and his brother Bill was a newspaper reporter for the ''[[Chicago Tribune]]'' and later for the ''Chicago Sun''.

He began taking classes at the Art Institute of Chicago when he was eleven, and adopted the "Herblock" signature in high school.

After graduating in 1927, he attended [[Lake Forest College]] for almost two years.

Late in his second year there he was hired{{mdashb}}after submitting some cartoons he had done in high school and college for the ''Evanston News-Index''{{mdashb}}to replace the ''[[Chicago Daily News]]{{'}}'' departing editorial cartoonist. He never returned to school.

Block moved to Cleveland in 1933 to become the staff cartoonist for [[Newspaper Enterprise Association]], which distributed his cartoons nationally.

He won his first [[Pulitzer Prize]] in 1942, then spent two years in the Army doing cartoons and press releases.
Upon discharge Block became chief editorial cartoonist for ''[[The Washington Post]]'', where he worked until his death 55 years later.<ref>"Herblock". ''American National Biography'' (2004).</ref>

Block's cartoons were syndicated to newspapers around the world by [[Creators Syndicate]] from 1987 until his death in 2001.<ref>{{Cite web|title = About Creators Syndicate|url = http://www.creators.com/about-creators.html|website = www.creators.com|access-date = 2015-11-11|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151109034120/http://www.creators.com/about-creators.html|archive-date = 2015-11-09|url-status = live}}</ref>

He never married, and, in the ''Post'''s employee index, his address was listed as simply "''The Washington Post''".