27 Facts About Mort Gerberg

Mort Gerberg was born on March 11,1931 and is a multi-genre American cartoonist and author whose work has appeared in magazines, newspapers, books, online, home video, film and television.

Mort Gerberg 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".

Mort Gerberg 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.

Mort Gerberg 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.

For television, Mort Gerberg wrote and drew an animated fable, "Opportunity Buzzes".

Mort Gerberg has done a number of on-the-scene sketch reportage assignments for print and television, drawing and writing about national and international events.

Mort Gerberg is a popular public speaker on the subjects of cartooning, Jewish humor and aging.

Mort Gerberg has appeared nationally and internationally at different venues, including universities, corporate conferences, synagogues and film festivals.

Mort Gerberg was a founder and former president of The Cartoonists Guild and is a member of the National Cartoonists Society and The Authors Guild.

Mort 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.

Brooklyn-born Mort Gerberg graduated from the Baruch College of The City College of New York with a BBA in 1952, then served in the US Army for two years, mostly at Fort Richardson, Anchorage, Alaska, in the Public Information Office, where he was editor of the post newspaper, The Alaskan Post.

Mort Gerberg left Ziff-Davis and New York in 1960 to live in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico for a year, to write and draw.

Mort Gerberg then returned to New York to begin a freelance career.

Mort Gerberg sold his first cartoons beginning in 1961 to many small magazines, like 1000 Jokes, Swank, Dude, Gent, Cavalier and Diners Club Magazine, then publishing in all major markets, such as the Saturday Evening Post, Look, Saturday Review, Esquire, Life, Cosmopolitan, before joining "Playboy" and "The New Yorker".

On Election Day, November 7,1972, Mort Gerberg appeared with Barbara Walters on the Today Show, drawing a political cartoon while she interviewed him.

On January 20,1973, Mort Gerberg appeared with Edwin Newman and Robin Cook on NBC-TV's live network coverage of Richard Nixon's second inauguration, drawing and commenting on the ceremony.

In 1989, Mort Gerberg appeared as a featured guest artist in the Shari Lewis home video, Lamb Chop in the Land of No Manners.

In 1998, Mort Gerberg was honored by the American School of Bilbao, Spain, to help celebrate its auspicious "Young Author's Festival," by inviting him to visit and draw for grade and high school pupils at the American Schools in Valencia, Madrid, Barcelona, Bilbao and Lisbon.

Mort Gerberg appeared in the 2001 PBS documentary, "Funny Business: An Inside Look at the Art of Cartooning," focusing on the creative and personal sides of several New Yorker cartoonists.

Mort Gerberg has been interviewed multiple times for Tony Guida's New York on CUNY.

Mort Gerberg was featured in the HBO documentary, "Very Semi-Serious: A Partially-Thorough Portrait of New Yorker Cartoonists," which aired on December 14,2015.

In 2004, Mort Gerberg was awarded the City College of New York's prestigious Townsend Harris Medal for Notable Achievement.

Mort Gerberg was a City College of New York Communications Hall of Fame Honoree for 2010.

Mort Gerberg was voted as Best Magazine Cartoonist of 2007 and 2008 by the National Cartoonists Society, and received five NCS nominations in other years, four as Best Magazine Cartoonist and one for Best Advertising Illustration.

In June, 2021, Mort Gerberg was the recipient of The National Cartoonists Society's Gold Key Award, honoring him as the 16th member of The National Cartoonists Society Hall of Fame.

Mort Gerberg lived in New York City with his wife, Judith, an internationally known career counselor for many decades.