Herblock

The conscience of the Washington Post for 58 years. Herblock drew there from 1943 until 2001, after 14 years at the Chicago Daily News, and he gave the English language the word McCarthyism. Richard Nixon was his longest-running target: he drew Vice President Nixon climbing out of a sewer, his smear tactics made literal, and his Watergate cartoons later put him on Nixon's enemies list. Even his early drawings showed a complete mastery of the political cartoon's conventions, and the plain, readable style let the argument do the work. He is one of only five cartoonists to win the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning three times, in 1942, 1954 and 1979.