Looking for some fun reading for this weekend? Drawing Liberalism: Herblock's Political Cartoons in Postwar America is currently 57% off at Amazon! #comics #herblock #politicalcartoons #comicsstudies #postwar #editorialillustration #editorialcartoon #EditorialCartooning #nationalcartoonistssociety #americanstudies

Drawing Liberalism is now officially out and to help publicize the launch I answered some questions about the book for the UVA Press.

https://www.upress.virginia.edu/author-corner/authors-corner-with-simon-appleford-author-of-drawing-liberalism/

#comicsstudies #herblock

We’re less than a week away from the official publication date of Drawing Liberalism and preorders are starting to arrive, so I thought I’d write a short thread about my book.

Drawing Liberalism is a book about several things, but at its heart is the work of #Herblock. For those unfamiliar with his career, Herbert Block was the Washington Post’s political cartoonist from 1946 until his death in 2001. His work for the Post covered almost every major issue of the second half of the 20th century. Among many other topics, he regularly drew about issues including the U.S. economy, civil rights, environmentalism, the influence of special interests, corruption, and gun control.

Like many Americans of his generation, Block was a proponent of postwar liberalism, a normative set of values and assumptions that believed a benevolent but activist and expansive federal government could shape society by keeping in check the worst excesses of capitalism.

#comicsstudies #herblock #politicalcartoon

Was away between Christmas and New Year but came home to find a late Christmas gift from the University of Virginia Press. It’s somewhat surreal holding a physical copy but the Press has done an amazing job with it! #herblock #ComicsStudies

🌟🚫 Herblock's Law: If it's good, they'll stop making it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herblock

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