was awarded the City College of New York's prestigious Townsend Harris Medal for Notable Achievement. He was a City College of New York Communications Hall of Fame Honoree for 2010. Gerberg was voted as Best Magazine Cartoonist of 2007 and 2008 by the National Cartoonists Society, and received five NCS nominations in other years, four as Best Magazine Cartoonist and one for Best Advertising Illustration. In June, 2021, Gerberg was the recipient of The National Cartoonists Society’s Gold Key Award, honoring him as the 16th member of The National Cartoonists Society Hall of Fame. 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." Personal life 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. References External links 1931 births Living people American comic strip cartoonists American illustrators Jewish American writers HuffPost writers and columnists The New Yorker cartoonists