![]() ![]() But an awful lot of people were, and this guy was doing something about it. He later commented: "I had started working before the Depression and was never out of a job. He also attacked the America First Committee and its isolationist foreign policy.īlock was a supporter of Franklin D. During the 1930s Block's cartoons highlighted the dangers of Adolf Hitler and the rise of fascism in Germany. In 1933 Block moved to the Newspaper Enterprise Association in Cleveland, the feature service that had been established by Edward Scripps. However, the Great Depression radicalized Block and he became increasingly critical of the presidency of Herbert Hoover. His cartoons, signed Herblock, initially reflected the right-wing views of the newspaper. Influenced by the work of Jay Darling and Edmund Duffy, the nineteen year old Block became staff cartoonist with the Chicago's Daily News in 1929. Herbert Block was born on 13th October, 1909. ![]()
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