Mort Gerberg

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

For clients in the business world (including Fidelity Investments, MasterCard, Epson, AT&T, Motorola, John Hancock, Brooks Brothers, among others) he has created customized art, cartoons and writing for their advertising and public relations, many for ads in "The New Yorker", and has been a consultant for ideation focus groups.

On January 20, 1973, 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, Gerberg appeared as a featured guest artist in the Shari Lewis home video, Lamb Chop in the Land of No Manners.

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.

On August 14, 2019, Gerberg played the 1907 Steinway piano that had belonged to Cole Porter at The New-York Historical Society, where it was on display, for a sing-along audience of one hundred people.

"[2] Two of Gerberg’s original drawings were included in "Superheroes in Gotham," an exhibition at the New York Historical Society that ran from October 2015 to February 2016; one of his New Yorker cartoons that was published in July, 1997, and a pencil sketch he drew in his Hebrew schoolbook when he was eight years old.

In January 2016, Gerberg was given the Tom Gill Educational Award, by the National Cartoonists Society "for a lifetime of outstanding contributions to the art of cartooning."

In June, 2020, with the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, he and his wife, moved to Lakewood Colorado where his daughter, Lilia Gerberg, an expert on combating malaria, lives with her family.