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| Mort Gerberg | |
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| Born | March 11, 1931 New York City, US |
| Area(s) | Cartoonist, illustrator, author |
| Spouse(s) | Judith Gerberg |
| Children | 1 |
| MortGerberg.com | |
Mort Gerberg (born March 11, 1931) is a multi-genre American cartoonist and author whose work has appeared in magazines, newspapers, books, online, home video, film and television. He is best known for his magazine cartoons, which have appeared in numerous and diverse titles such as The New Yorker, Playboy, Harvard Business Review, The Huffington Post and Paul Krassner's The Realist, and for his 1983 book, "Cartooning: The Art and The Business". He created a weekly news cartoon, Out of Line, for Publishers Weekly from 1988 to 1994 and has drawn an editorial-page cartoon for The Columbia Paper, the weekly newspaper in Columbia County, New York, since 2003.
Besides magazine cartoons, Gerberg has drawn nationally syndicated newspaper comic strips. His 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 for the dailies and one for the Sundays.) It also syndicated his daily panel Hang in There during the same period. For United Feature Syndicate, Gerberg updated the early classic strip, There Oughta Be a Law! writing and drawing it for several years in the early 1980s. Gerberg also collaborated on the creation of the strip, Inside Woody Allen for King Features Syndicate, a strip for Universal Press Syndicate for astrologer Jeane Dixon and a strip for United Feature Syndicate for the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Jack Anderson.
Gerberg has written, edited and/or illustrated over 45 books for adults and children. They include: Cartooning: The Art and the Business, the most authoritative guidebook in the field since 1983; Last Laughs: Cartoons About Aging, Retirement ... and the Great Beyond; Joy in Mudville: The Big Book of Baseball Humor, with Dick Schaap; The All-Jewish Cartoon Collection; Right on Sister; The High Society, Mort Gerberg on the Scene: A 50-Year Cartoon Chronicle (published by Fantagraphics) and the children's books Why Did Halley’s Comet Cross The Universe?, Geographunny, and the best-selling More Spaghetti, I Say.
For television, Gerberg wrote and drew an animated fable, "Opportunity Buzzes". for PBS’s 51st State on Channel 13, New York, and wrote and drew three animated skits for the feminist show, Woman, on CBS, in 1972. He drew twice-daily topical cartoons and a weekly on-camera-drawing feature, "Cartoon Views of the News", for NBC’s Channel Four, New York in 1975-1978. In the early 1990s Gerberg was also a content provider for ABC-TV Multimedia, Prodigy, America Online and, online, BookWire.com.
Gerberg has done a number of on-the-scene sketch reportage assignments for print and television, drawing and writing about national and international events. They included "swinging London" in 1967, The Democratic National Convention in Chicago in 1968, The New York Mets’ pennant win in 1969, an African safari in 1972, New York Knick fans in 1973, and the U.S. Open at Forest Hills in 1976.
Gerberg is a popular public speaker on the subjects of cartooning, Jewish humor and aging. He has appeared nationally and internationally at different venues, including universities, corporate conferences, synagogues and film festivals. He was a founder and former president of The Cartoonists Guild and is a member of the National Cartoonists Society and The Authors Guild.
Gerberg taught cartooning for over 15 years at New York City's Parsons School of Design and for the New School's distance learning program. One of his former students was The Wall Street Journal caricaturist Ken Fallin.[1] Gerberg also co-edited, with New Yorker cartoonist Ed Fisher, ″The Art in Cartooning,″ and collaborated, with Bob Mankoff, cartoon editor of The New Yorker, on an instruction kit for Barnes & Noble, "Creating Cartoons From Think To Ink'."
For clients in the business world (including Fidelity Investments, MasterCard, Epson, AT&T, Motorola, John Hancock, Brooks Brothers, among others) he has created customized art, cartoons and writing for their advertising and public relations, many for ads in "The New Yorker", and has been a consultant for ideation focus groups.