Jerry Scott

Jerry Scott (born May 2, 1955 in South Bend ( Indiana )) is an American comic book artist and writer.

Life

In the mid-1970s, Scott began drawing cartoons for magazines. From 1983 he took over Ernie Bushmiller's comic series Nancy , a childish-humorous newspaper comic with a dreamy 8-year-old girl as the eponymous heroine; he drew and wrote this series until the mid-1990s. He became friends with Rick Kirkman as early as 1988 , and they both created Baby Blues , a comic about family life with young children. Scott writes and Kirkman draws the little stories that have already been published in more than 700 daily newspapers. Since 1997 Scott has also worked as a writer with the illustrator Jim Borgman . Her series is Zits , a comic book about a family with a teenage son that also became a worldwide hit and was printed in countless newspapers.

Scott lives with his family in Malibu, California .

Prizes & awards

• 2000: Max and Moritz Prize “Best International Comic Strip” for Zits
• 2001: Reuben Award for Zits and Baby Blues

Web links

• Jerry Scott at lambiek.net
• Jerry Scott at babyblues.com