Dave Gerard (cartoonist)
Dave Gerard (June 18, 1909 - August 31, 2003) was a prolific magazine humor cartoonist from the 1940s through to the 1960s, most notably for Collier's Weekly, Country Gentleman, and The Saturday Evening Post.[1]
Gerard was a 1931 graduate of Wabash College in Crawfordsville, Indiana.[1] He was among the Crawfordsville-area cartoonists known as “The Sugar Crick Art School,” Bill Holman perhaps being the most famous of the group.[2]
Between 1953 and 1966, Gerard drew the newspaper comic strip Will-Yum. Will-Yum was also featured in a Dell comic book. Gerard was also the creator of Citizen Smith, a strip that featured an everyman beset by everyday frustrations; this work appeared in The Indianapolis Star in the 1970s and 1980s.[3]
Dave Gerard was the mayor of Crawfordsville, Indiana, from 1972 to 1976.[3]
Notes
- 1 2 George Glazer Gallery - Antique Globes - Cram's Toy Globe by Dave Gerard
- ↑ Zach, Karen Bazzani. Crawfordsville, Athens of Indiana. The making of America series. Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 2003, p. 108.
- 1 2 Comic creator: Dave Gerard