European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 08, 1969, Darmstadt, Hesse The barbed pen of any Chance of a cease fire Over Here by Walter Hennessey is new York Bureau political cartoonist Herb lock Call himself a one cartoon a Day Man. One he says is plenty. But some of the people he Carica Tures men in High places around Washington or the world s various other seats of Power feel that one Herb lock drawing a Day is one too Many. Likely As no they Are still smarting from recent skewering by the famous Herb lock Penat any Given time the list of impaled bigwigs May include a collection of Ven Erable . Senators and congressmen assorted political candidates perhaps foreign head of state or two and of course an occasional president. Always fair game too Are the proliferating Spe Cial interest groups such As the pow Erful gun lobby. The great american sport in t baseball insists Herb lock it s bang you re and there Are always the great issues confronting humanity such As the nuclear arms race bang everybody s since most political cartoons Are of a needling nature Herb lock must live withe fact that the subjects of some of his Best work won t be overjoyed by his efforts. Caricatures he Points out Are exaggerations and As such Are hardly intended to flatter someone s ego the cartoonist he explains some times does a kind of picture of Dorian Uray which presents a character that the subject himself does not see whence looks in the this he says makes it terribly disconcerting for the cartoonist when he gets off a blast intended to take the hide off a politician Only to hear the subject on the Telephone Chucklin laughing and asking for a but usually the real zingers go unacknowledged by the victims. I never hear from the subjects themselves when they Are unhappy about the cartoons " says the Man who has nailed Many apolitical hide to the Wall in nearly 40 years of new papering. If he does get wind of a subject s displeasure it s Usu ally indirectly like learning through the Grapevine that they be blown their tops in committee meetings said something in Congress or complained to the Edi when such far off rumblings Pene trate his cluttered newspaper filled of fice at the Washington Post the artist basically a Man of gentle nature accepts it philosophically. After All hell shrug political cartoons Don make up into lace us do pictures every Day of the week he once wrote showing Uncle Sam resting his hand on somebody shoulder and saying Well done and i did the music Man say when our instrument and uniforms Are coming 12 think we d All be pretty sick of would show that Many jobs were being Well done All right but mine would t be one of one of Herb lock s jobs it seems i turning out a Book every four years or so collecting the cartoons he feels typify his work Over the period explaining As the spirit moves him his views on various issues and offering a few in sights into what a political cartoonist does and thinks. My books Are not Complete histories of political events not definitive works on any subject and not an inside any thing except my As is evident from the familiar draw Ings on these pages reprinted from the newly published the Herb lock gallery Simon and schuste Herb lock has been moved to give us another look in Side his head. It includes 550 cartoons and 30,000 words certain to Delight entertain and inform the legion of readers who follow his daily drawings in More real zingers usually go unacknowledged my dear chaps Hove you no refinement no of Niue a a victims. The stars and stripes than 200 newspapers in the . An the free world. After five books i be got it Downto. A system. Instead of spending All my spare time for Many months struggling yer a Book i now shoot my whole vacation on it and get it done in time Togo Back to work for Herb lock includes keeping Finger on Washington s legislative pulse spurring consciences Over such pressing National issues As housing education civil rights and Basic International concerns such As War and peace always giving High priority to the daily fortunes and misfortunes of whatever a up Straton a Jappert of be in Power. So there is always plenty of grist forthe Herb Locc Mill att fans have their favo and Qirici out the artist says t &. Rating the Wor dealers he does t Post of his among the Hes turned Hen it comes wheelers and there is nobody Sta can t be caricatured. For me it does t really Ter what a Man s is anyway. What i Down on paper something thai signifies in physical som after readers Gat used to the Way a another look inside Herb lock s head. Sicular person is drawn the drawing tomes a Symbol they can accept right a. Cartoonists joke among themes that if you caricature a person enough the subject will eventually to look the Way you be been draw i so this would be disturbing newsmen. Everett Dirksen whom Herb lock in depicts As a walking shambles would also mean that most washing lobbyists would have wads of Money Ling out of their pockets big paunch and the vests covering their Ampler Achs would be labelled special in typical Dirksen cartoon presents the r As a tramp dressed in tattered attire yet displaying the most i Teel of manners. The senator is a character Arou Dishington who senses he is a charac and does everything possible to live to his reputation. Personally i think a very interesting Guy and an sex icly likeable Here Are those who have the Sauerm feelings toward the cartoonist a Lial soft spoken Bachelor of 59 who much in demand at Washington soil , he frequently makes minute changes i his daily ear to right up to his 7 30 . Deadline. Usually these have been preceded by much Rushing about the Post newsroom where he tries out cartoon ideas on Fel Low staffers. Even the cop boys get a look. The artist wants to be sure he Smade his Point As clearly and As simply As possible if his co workers Don t get the Point or Are confused by the wording which he polishes with the same exactness Ashe drawing itself then readers prob ably would t understand Are always asking where he finds the inspiration for his assures them there Are no Thunder bolts from out of the come on office time As part of the daily routine. You think about what you Are trying to say and draw a num Ber of sketches in an Effort to find Thebes Way of saying it in a to. Hat has been the Way it s been for Herbert l. Block he adopted Herb Lockas a pen name in High school since As far Back As 1929 when he went to works an editorial cartoonist for the daily news in his native followed a couple of other news paper jobs a world War ii hitch in the army he edited an information clip Sheet and was discharged with the ran of sergeant two pulitzer prizes 1942 the explosion population. What you need is something new like i Don t Core what Ore doing you con t the other kids Wear that out Fly saturday february 9, 1969 and 1954 and a Long list of other awards including an exhibit at the National gallery of Art where he was the firs living american cartoonist to be so Hon ored. He has been a fixture at the pos since 1945 and his work is distributed by the publishers Hall Syndicate. As one of the capital s leading cartoonists Herb lock has chronicled every administration since Hoover s time sometimes earning appreciative chuckles sometimes Only Stony silence from the incumbent at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Truman seemed to enjoy even thrones that were critical of him and his policies Herb lock recalls reviewing some of the responses he s gotten from various chief executives. He had feeling for cartoons and understood that they were not meant As personal at tacks but dealt in issues and were Hon est expressions of opinion. I never heard much about what Eisenhower thought but Johnson apparently liked quite a few of them. The White House would ask for prints for his private if events of the recent and even Remote past mean anything it s doubtful that the present occupant of the Oval office will be clamouring Fop Herblot prints. During his pro presidential years Richard Nixon was consistently drawn by Herb lock in such guises As a rum the stars and stripes pled Lump Jawed car Salesman beset with a perpetual 5 o clock Shadow and eagerly trying to unload a battered old liver labelled the i have never heard from him directly but during one of his earlier campaigns he told a press conference reread my paper in his office but would t bring it into his House where the girls might see another favorite pose Given Nixon was that of a mortician. I Drew him that Way because i had him pegged Asa fellow of great patience who was just standing around Over the years waiting for the political eventuality that finally happened. As far As my work goes some people May have thought i was rough on him but i Don t think the hazards for him were greater than they were for anyone else in a Ler Block s gift to the Nixon presi Dency was a clean shave in a Post elec Tion cartoon offered perhaps As a sort of unilateral Hatchet a new administration you have to wait and give them a Chance to work things through. It s just the right thing to do. is the president now and it s time to Start fresh. He s not going to have at least not for a while. Pose 13
