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Gerberg is a popular public speaker on the subjects of cartooning, Jewish humor and aging. He has appeared nationally and internationally at different venues, including universities, corporate conferences, synagogues and film festivals. He was a founder and former president of The
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December 30, 2019 issue of The New Yorker, in an illustrated feature entitled, "Celebrities Pick Their Favorite New Yorker Cartoons," the first entry was by Steve Martin, who selected a Mort Gerberg cartoon from the April 12, 1969 issue of the magazine which featured a trained seal who said,
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Gerberg lived in New York City with his wife, Judith, an internationally known career counselor for many decades. 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
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Gerberg has done a number of on-the-scene sketch reportage assignments for print and television, drawing and writing about national and international events. They included "swinging London" in 1967, The
Democratic National Convention in Chicago in 1968, The New York Mets’ pennant win in 1969, an
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American School of Bilbao, Spain, to help celebrate its auspicious "Young Author’s Festival," by inviting him to visit and draw for grade and high school pupils at the American Schools in Valencia, Madrid, Barcelona, Bilbao and Lisbon.
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collected the strip's entire run into two books, one for the dailies and one for the Sundays.) It also syndicated his daily panel
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cartoons that was published in July, 1997, and a pencil sketch he drew in his Hebrew schoolbook when he was eight years old.
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