Mort Gerberg

Mort Gerberg
Born	Mort Gerberg New York City, New York, U.S.A.
Occupation	Cartoonist
Spouse	Judith Gerberg
Children	1

Mort Gerberg is an American cartoonist whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, Playboy, and Publishers Weekly, among other magazines. He is the author, illustrator or editor of 40 books for adults and children including his classic textbook, "Cartooning: The Art and the Business"; "More Spaghetti, I Say!"; "Joy in Mudville: The Big Book of Baseball Humor"; and "Last Laughs: Cartoons About Aging, Retirement...and The Great Beyond." His newest book, "The All-Jewish Cartoon Collection," will be released in the upcoming months. He lives in New York City with his wife, Judith Gerberg, plays second base for The New Yorker softball team, and is an avid Huffington Post blogger.

His comic strip Koky (co-created and written by Richard O'Brien) was syndicated from 1979 to 1981 by the Chicago Tribune-New York News Syndicate. In 2007, Ramble House collected the strip's entire run into two books (one collecting the dailies and the other collecting the Sundays).

One of Gerberg's students was Wall Street Journal caricaturist Ken Fallin.^[1]

In 1968, Gerberg signed the “Writers and Editors War Tax Protest” pledge, vowing to refuse tax payments in protest against the Vietnam War.^[2]

References

1. ^ Caricaturist Captures the Corporate Market, Biz Bash Orlando, August 11, 2008.
2. ^ “Writers and Editors War Tax Protest” January 30, 1968 New York Post

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