In 1996, Jerry had an idea for a comic strip about a teenage boy, and along with the artistic genius of Jim Borgman, Zits was born. There are more than three dozen Baby Blues collection books in print, with well over a million copies sold. Baby Blues currently runs in more than 1,200 newspapers in 28 countries and 13 languages. The result was Baby Blues, which was launched into syndication in 1990. In 1988, he got together with longtime friend Rick Kirkman and started kicking ideas around for a new strip. In 1983, he took over the comic strip Nancy, which he continued to reinvent for 12 years. Jerry started cartooning professionally in the mid-1970s by selling a cartoon to the Saturday Evening Post. It was that I got to be the first person in my neighborhood to read the comics on Sunday mornings. “I was pulling down maybe three figures a year, but the real reward wasn’t the money. As co-creator of Baby Blues and Zits, he is one of just four cartoonists in history to have two daily comics strips running in more than 1,000 newspapers each.īorn May 2, 1955, in South Bend, Ind., he was first introduced to the newspaper business by delivering the South Bend Tribune from his bicycle over pre-dawn Indiana roads. Jerry Scott has become a superstar of the cartooning world. The creators, who are parents themselves, have a keen insight into the many physical and emotional changes that teens go through during adolescence, and they have the gift of addressing these common dilemmas with compassion and humor. Zits is the only strip in comics history to achieve that milestone in the short span of nine years. The comic has an estimated daily readership of more than 200 million readers. His unpredictable mood swings and monosyllabic answers to his parents’ mild-mannered questions often leave them baffled and bemused.Ĭreated in 1997 by Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Jim Borgman and Reuben Award-winning cartoonist/writer Jerry Scott, Zits appears in more than 1,600 newspapers worldwide in 45 countries and is translated into 15 different languages. He is intelligent and kind, yet he still has the attitude that one would expect from a teenager. Between naps, study hall and band practice, Jeremy still manages to find time to be the star of the hugely popular comic strip, Zits. He daydreams about the day when his band, Goat Cheese Pizza, records their first monster hit single, and they all pile into his van for their cross-country, sold-out concert tour.

Sixteen-year-old Jeremy Duncan is a high school freshman and an aspiring musician.

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