As he explained, the NEA grew "really jittery about my cartoons because they were afraid that if a client cancelled the cartoon they'd cancel the whole service. He then moved to the Newspaper Enterprise Association (NEA) in Cleveland, Ohio, where his personal opinions, as always, guided his drawings toward a definite idea, which disturbed some of the management. When only 19 Herblock began his career as journalist with the position of editorial cartoonist on the Chicago Daily News (1929-1933). Endowed with a natural gift for drawing, he perfected it by attending the Chicago Art Institute part time he also obtained a good general education at nearby Lake Forest College (1927-1929). Block's first books were dedicated to "Bill …, one of the best reporters in Chicago's newspaper history." His mother was Tessie, née Lupe. His brother William, who was his earliest mentor and also active in journalism, induced him to enter that field. His pen name, Herblock, was suggested to him by his father David Julian, a chemist. Herbert Block was born October 13, 1909, in Chicago, Illinois. The American newspaper cartoonist Herbert Block (born 1909), better known as Herblock, was concerned with civil liberties and the attacks on them by demagogues and dishonest politicians.
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