Ernest Riebe

Ernest Riebe immigrated to the United States from his native Germany sometime around the turn of the 20th century. Not much of his biography is known. His “Mr. Block” comics began appearing in the Spokane Industrial Worker in 1912, and his art appeared in IWW publications through 1922. His eventual fate is also unknown, but his most famous creation was immortalized in a song by Joe Hill titled, appropriately, “Mr. Block.”

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  Comics

  Mr. Block, Vol. XXIV

  It's something unpredictable but in the end is right / Mr. Block hopes you had the time of your life.

  By Ernest Riebe
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  Comics

  Mr. Block, Vol. XXIII

  You can't eat bourgeois platitudes.

  By Ernest Riebe
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  Mr. Block, Vol. XXII

  A century of obsequious fawning over the First Lady's fashion choices.

  By Ernest Riebe
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  Comics

  Mr. Block, Vol. XXI

  In which our hero sells out his comrades.

  By Ernest Riebe
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  Mr. Block, Vol. XX

  Listen all y'all, it's a sabotage

  By Ernest Riebe
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  Mr. Block, Vol. XIX

  Won't somebody think of the children?

  By Ernest Riebe
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  Comics

  Mr. Block, Vol. XVIII

  Have block. Will travel.

  By Ernest Riebe
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  Mr. Block, Vol. XVII

  Capitalism ruined Christmas.

  By Ernest Riebe
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  Comics

  Mr. Block, Vol. XVI

  A block in the gears.

  By Ernest Riebe
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  Comics

  Mr. Block, Vol. XV

  Gentrification, block by block.

  By Ernest Riebe
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  Comics

  Mr. Block, Vol. XIV

  Brick on Block.

  By Ernest Riebe
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  Mr. Block, Vol. XIII

  The only prescription is more solidarity.

  By Ernest Riebe