{"id":205,"date":"2015-09-02T18:23:05","date_gmt":"2015-09-02T18:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marcbilgrey.com\/marcbilgreyblog\/?p=205"},"modified":"2016-02-24T16:08:10","modified_gmt":"2016-02-24T16:08:10","slug":"mort-gerberg-cartoonist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marcbilgrey.com\/marcbilgreyblog\/mort-gerberg-cartoonist\/","title":{"rendered":"MORT GERBERG CARTOONIST"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marcbilgrey.com\/marcbilgreyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/mort-gerberg-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-215 size-medium alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marcbilgrey.com\/marcbilgreyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/mort-gerberg-2-281x300.jpg\" alt=\"mort-gerberg\" width=\"281\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.marcbilgrey.com\/marcbilgreyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/mort-gerberg-2-281x300.jpg 281w, https:\/\/www.marcbilgrey.com\/marcbilgreyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/mort-gerberg-2.jpg 394w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 281px) 100vw, 281px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nMort Gerberg\u2019s wonderful cartoons have been appearing in magazines for a very long time. \u00a0You may have seen them in <em>The<\/em> <em>New<\/em> <em>Yorker<\/em>, <em>Playboy<\/em>, <em>Harvard<\/em> <em>Business<\/em> <em>Review<\/em>, <em>The<\/em> <em>Huffington<\/em> <em>Post<\/em> and many other publications. \u00a0Mort\u2019s cartoons are always intelligent and sophisticated. His drawing style is beautifully clean and eloquent. \u00a0His subjects are usually taken from middle class urban life, the kinds of people you might know or meet in ordinary everyday situations. \u00a0But there\u2019s nothing ordinary about his work. \u00a0Mort\u2019s cartoons are very funny, revealing universal truths we all share. \u00a0He shows us little moments and observations on our social mores and behavior. His cartoons are satirical but not mean spirited.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.marcbilgrey.com\/marcbilgreyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/mort-gerberg-seals.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a>Mort has had many published collections of his cartoons and he has also edited quite a few anthologies of cartoons and illustrated children\u2019s books. \u00a0He\u2019s the author of what I think is the best book on cartooning ever written,\u00a0<em>Cartooning: The Art and The Business<\/em>. \u00a0This book is the definitive how to guide to panel cartoons and comic strips. \u00a0If you or someone you know is interested in cartooning this is THE book to get.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.marcbilgrey.com\/marcbilgreyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/mort-gerberg-seals.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-216\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marcbilgrey.com\/marcbilgreyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/mort-gerberg-seals.jpg\" alt=\"mort-gerberg-seals\" width=\"453\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.marcbilgrey.com\/marcbilgreyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/mort-gerberg-seals.jpg 453w, https:\/\/www.marcbilgrey.com\/marcbilgreyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/mort-gerberg-seals-300x143.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 453px) 100vw, 453px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marcbilgrey.com\/marcbilgreyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/mort-gerberg-seals1.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the many cartoon anthologies Mort has edited is, <em>LAST LAUGHS: Cartoons About Aging, Retirement\u2026and The Great Beyond<\/em>. \u00a0He also illustrated the best- selling children\u2019s book, <em>More Spaghetti, I Say<\/em>. Pick up one of Mort\u2019s excellent books. \u00a0Also be sure to take a look at his website: (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.Mortgerberg.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.Mortgerberg.com<\/a>) to see a master at work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mort Gerberg\u2019s wonderful cartoons have been appearing in magazines for a very long time. \u00a0You may have seen them in The New Yorker, Playboy, Harvard Business Review, The Huffington Post and many other publications. \u00a0Mort\u2019s cartoons are always intelligent and &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marcbilgrey.com\/marcbilgreyblog\/mort-gerberg-cartoonist\/\">Continue&nbsp;reading&nbsp;<span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[88],"tags":[48,91,92,46,45,93,89,90,47],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marcbilgrey.com\/marcbilgreyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marcbilgrey.com\/marcbilgreyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marcbilgrey.com\/marcbilgreyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marcbilgrey.com\/marcbilgreyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marcbilgrey.com\/marcbilgreyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.marcbilgrey.com\/marcbilgreyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217,"href":"https:\/\/www.marcbilgrey.com\/marcbilgreyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions\/217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marcbilgrey.com\/marcbilgreyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marcbilgrey.com\/marcbilgreyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marcbilgrey.com\/marcbilgreyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}