Jerry Dowling is a Canadian-born American
cartoonist
A cartoonist is a visual artist who specializes in both drawing and writing cartoons (individual images) or comics (sequential images). Cartoonists differ from comics writers or comic book illustrators in that they produce both the literary and ...
who has also worked in newspaper illustration. He received the
National Cartoonists Society
The National Cartoonists Society (NCS) is an organization of professional cartoonists in the United States. It presents the National Cartoonists Society Awards. The Society was born in 1946 when groups of cartoonists got together to entertain the ...
Newspaper Illustration Award in 1994 for his work.
Dowling worked for ''
The Cincinnati Enquirer
''The Cincinnati Enquirer'' is a morning daily newspaper published by Gannett in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. First published in 1841, the ''Enquirer'' is the last remaining daily newspaper in Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky, alth ...
'' from the late 1960s to 1994. He continued to do sports cartoons for the Cincinnati alternative weekly
CityBeat'
for 12 years. Dowling often puts a little rodent (called Dirty Rat) at the bottom of his cartoons. The rodent always has something to say. Dowling was known for cartoons of former Cincinnati Reds owner Marge Schott, depicting her with ever-increasing numbers of cigarettes hanging from her mouth.
Dowling's book
Drawing Pete''-- Pete Rose's Career in Drawings''was published in 2008. The book is a collection from his 40 years of drawings of
Cincinnati Reds
The Cincinnati Reds are an American professional baseball team based in Cincinnati. They compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (NL) National League Central, Central division and were a charter member of ...
player
Pete Rose
Peter Edward Rose Sr. (born April 14, 1941), also known by his nickname "Charlie Hustle", is an American former professional baseball player and manager. Rose played in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1963 to 1986, most prominently as a membe ...
. He has five other books published
''Drawing Super Wars'' ''-- The Cincinnati Bengals Early Years''(2009),
Drawing the Big Red Machine' (Cincinnati Reds teams) (2010),
Drawing the Hollywood Book of Fame' (2014),
Drawing the Grand Ole Country', and
Cincinnati Hockey and Its History' (2021). All can be purchased at his website
jerryjdowling.com.
He presently does numerous gift illustrations.
References
External links
National Cartoonists Society Jerry Dowling page
American cartoonists
Living people
The Cincinnati Enquirer people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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