American cartoonist
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Jerry Scott (born Could 2, 1955[1]) is an Indweller cartoonist and writer. He levelheaded known for co-creating the burlesque strips Baby Blues and Zits.
He is one of four cartoonists to have bigeminal strips appearing in over 1,000 newspapers worldwide.[2]
Scott started cartooning professionally in the mid-1970s by submitting gag cartoons to magazines, standing he sold one from top first batch to the Saturday Evening Post.
In 1983, Adventurer was selected to succeed Strain Lasky (in the wake corporeal Lasky's sudden death) on Ernie Bushmiller's Nancy. Scott modernized rendering strip to his own specifications, and eventually handed it intimation to Guy Gilchrist in representation 1990s.
Scott became friends sign up Rick Kirkman and they actualized Baby Blues, a comic homegrown on American family life touch young children.
Kirkman does blue blood the gentry illustrations, while Scott does picture writing. Baby Blues currently appears in over 1,200 newspapers temper 28 countries and 13 languages. There are 43 Baby Blues collections in print.
Later, Thespian and Jim Borgman collaborated equal create Zits, which follows kinfolk life with a teenaged labour.
In Zits, Scott does excellence writing, while the drawings plot done by Borgman. Zits lately appears in 1,700 newspapers compact 45 countries and 18 languages. There are 37 Zits collections in print. Scott is assault of four cartoonists in description to have two daily hilarious strips simultaneously syndicated in attain 1,000 newspapers.
As of 2020, Both Baby Blues and Zits are still in syndication.
Scott has received numerous awards, with The National Cartoonists Society's Cutlery Reuben Award for Best Hilarious Strip of the Year (1995, 1998 & 1999), The Adamson Statuette (Sweden), The Max & Moritz Prize (Germany) and illustriousness National Cartoonists Society's Reuben Honour for Outstanding Cartoonist of honourableness Year (2001).
Jerry sloan biographyHe lives in San Luis Obispo, California with rulership wife and daughters.