Mort Gerberg

Mort Gerberg is a cartoonist and author best known for his magazine cartoons, which have appeared regularly in numerous publications such as The New Yorker, Playboy, Harvard Business Review and Publisher's Weekly. He has drawn several nationally-syndicated newspaper comic strips and has written and/or illustrated 39 books for adults and children.

Scribner has just published, in November, 2007, a hardcover collection he edited entitled LAST LAUGHS: Cartoons About Aging, Retirement…and the Great Beyond (lastlaughscollection.com).

His Cartooning: The Art and the Business has been the leading instructional/reference work in the field for over twenty years. Among his other popular books are Joy in Mudville: The Big Book of Baseball Humor, with the late Dick Schaap, and, for children, Bearly Bearable, Geographunny, and the best-selling (over two million copies) More Spaghetti, I Say. Mr. Gerberg's cartoons are featured in the Simon & Schuster The Rejection Collection and in its sequel, published in November 2007.

Mr. Gerberg has also written, drawn and performed on television news shows and appeared in the Shari Lewis home video Lamb Chop in The Land of No Manners. Mr. Gerberg taught cartooning at New York City's Parsons School of Design for many years, including an online class through the New School Distance Learning Program.

Online, Mr. Gerberg has been an information content provider for ABC Multimedia, Prodigy, America Online and for BookWire.com, which also hosted his Gerberg's Gallery site and GreeThings, his online cartoon greeting card service.

For clients in the business world (e.g., AT&T, John Hancock, RCA, American Express, Neiman-Marcus, Brooks Brothers, Motorola), he has been a creative consultant, a member of ideation focus groups and written and drawn cartoons and illustrations for advertising and public relations campaigns and for corporate websites.

Mr. Gerberg lives in New York City.