Name Dave Gerard Role Comic Strip Creator | Died August 31, 2003 Education Wabash College | |
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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.
Gerard was a 1931 graduate of Wabash College in Crawfordsville, Indiana. He was among the Crawfordsville-area cartoonists known as “The Sugar Crick Art School,” Bill Holman perhaps being the most famous of the group.
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.
Dave Gerard was the mayor of Crawfordsville, Indiana, from 1972 to 1976.