March 12: Mort Gerberg at Kramerbooks

Mort Gerberg for Mort Gerberg on the Scene, Moderated by Ann Telanes

Tuesday, March 12th 6:30pm

 https://kramers.com/mort-gerberg-mort-gerberg-scene-moderated-ann-telanes

Mort Gerberg broke into print with irreverent drawings in The Realist in the early '60s, whose social-justice-minded—and bitingly funny—cartoons have since appeared in all major magazines, including The New Yorker, Playboy, and the Saturday Evening Post. As a reporter, he's sketched historic scenes like the fiery Women's Marches of the '60s and the infamous '68 Democratic National Convention. Above all, Mort Gerberg is a keen political and social observer, whose curiosity, compassion, and razor-sharp wit has informed his work for over 50 years. Fantagraphics FU Press is proud to present Mort Gerberg On the Scene, a handsome career retrospective of Gerberg's magazine cartoons, sketchbook drawings, and on-the-scene reportage sketches.

Mort Gerberg is an award-winning, multi-genre cartoonist and author best known for his cartoons in The New Yorker, Playboy, and many other magazines. He has drawn three nationally-syndicated newspaper comic strips and written, edited, and/or illustrated 43 books for adults and children, including the best-selling More Spaghetti, I Say. In 2019, the New-York Historical Society presents a 50-year retrospective of his work. Gerberg lives in New York City with his wife Judith.

Ann Telnaes creates editorial cartoons in various mediums – animation, visual essays, live sketches, and traditional print – for The Washington Post. Telnaes is the current president of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists (AAEC) and is a member of the National Cartoonists Society (NCS). She won the Pulitzer Prize in 2001 for her print cartoons and the National Cartoonists Society's Reuben for Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year for 2016.