Mort Gerberg
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March 11, 1931 Brooklyn, New York, U.S.A. |
| Area(s) | Cartoonist, Illustrator, Author |
| Spouse(s) | Judith Gerberg |
| Children | Lilia Gerberg |
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Mort Gerberg 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. He created a weekly news cartoon, “Out of Line,” for Publishers Weekly from 1988-1994 and has drawn an editorial-page cartoon for The Columbian, 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 Media Syndicate, Gerberg updated the early classic strip, There Oughta Be a Law! writing and drawing it for several years. Gerberg also collaborated on the creation of the strip, Inside Woody Allen for King Features, a strip for Universal Press Syndicate for astrologer Jeanne Dixon and a strip for United Feature Syndicate for the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Jack Anderson.
Gerberg has written, edited and/or illustrated over 42 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;” 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.
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