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Al Jaffee passes Herblock in professional longevity, but what about Hirschfeld?

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When I saw this story, I wondered about Herblock's career's length.

AL JAFFEE SETS RECORD FOR LONGEST CAREER AS A COMICS ARTIST

As He Celebrates 95th Birthday

by Milton Griepp on April 1, 2016
http://icv2.com/articles/news/view/34112/al-jaffee-sets-record-longest-career-comics-artist

Herb "Herblock" Block worked as an editorial cartoonist from 1929-2001, for 72 years. Jaffee definitely worked longer with over 73 months and counting.

However, I think Al Hirschfeld's tenure still beats Jaffee's. According to the Library of Congress, "In fact, Hirschfeld's first published caricature was for a Warner Brothers film in April 1925; his first theatrical drawing appeared in December 1926." Hirschfeld was still working for the New York Times when he died in January 2003. This would be either 77 years and 9 months (from the poster), or 78 years in newspapers, but either of them beat Jaffee's "record of 73 years and three months" unless one defines a comics artist as working only in comic books.

However Al Jaffee is still alive, so more power to him.