Jerry Scott (born May 2, 1955
[) is an American cartoonist and writer. He is known for co-creating the comic strips '' Baby Blues'' and '' Zits''. He is one of only four cartoonists to have multiple strips appearing in over 1,000 newspapers worldwide.Jerry Scott]
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Career
Scott started cartooning professionally in the mid-1970s by submitting gag cartoons to magazines, and he sold one from his first batch to the ''Saturday Evening Post''. In 1983, Scott was selected to succeed Mark Lasky (in the wake of Lasky's sudden death) on Ernie Bushmiller's '' Nancy''. Scott modernized the strip to his own specifications, and eventually handed it over to Guy Gilchrist in the 1990s.
Scott became friends with Rick Kirkman
Rick Kirkman (born 1953) is a cartoonist and co-creator of the comic strip ''Baby Blues''. He received the National Cartoonist Society Newspaper Comic Strip Award in 1995, and the Reuben Award in 2012 for his work on the strip. He also served as co ...
and they created '' Baby Blues'', a comic based on American family life with young children. Kirkman does the illustrations, while Scott does the writing. ''Baby Blues'' currently appears in over 1,200 newspapers in 28 countries and 13 languages. There are 43 ''Baby Blues'' collections in print.
Later, Scott and Jim Borgman collaborated to create '' Zits'', which follows family life with a teenaged son. In ''Zits'', Scott does the writing, while the drawings are done by Borgman. ''Zits'' currently appears in 1,700 newspapers in 45 countries and 18 languages. There are 37 ''Zits'' collections in print. Scott is one of four cartoonists in history to have two daily comic strips simultaneously syndicated in over 1,000 newspapers. As of 2020, Both ''Baby Blues'' and ''Zits'' are still in syndication.
Scott has received numerous awards, including The National Cartoonists Society's Silver Reuben Award for Best Comic Strip of the Year (1995, 1998 & 1999), The Adamson Statuette (Sweden), The Max & Moritz Prize (Germany) and the National Cartoonists Society's Reuben Award for Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year (2001).
He lives in San Luis Obispo, California
San Luis Obispo (; Spanish for " St. Louis the Bishop", ; Chumash: ''tiłhini'') is a city and county seat of San Luis Obispo County, in the U.S. state of California. Located on the Central Coast of California, San Luis Obispo is roughly halfwa ...
with his wife and daughters.
References
External links
NCS Awards
Zits - About Jim and Jerry
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1955 births
Living people
American cartoonists
Reuben Award winners
People from San Luis Obispo, California
People from South Bend, Indiana
Artists from Indiana