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Jerry Dumas
BornGerald Dumas
(1930-06-06) June 6, 1930 (age 94)
Detroit, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
Area(s)artist, writer
Notable works
Sam and Silo
Awardsfull list
Signature
Signature of Jerry Dumas

Jerry Dumas (born June 6, 1930) is an American cartoonist, best known for his Sam and Silo comic strip. Dumas is also a writer and essayist, and a columnist for the Greenwich Time.

Biography

Born in Detroit, Dumas started drawing cartoons when he was nine years old. In 1954, after acquiring a degree in English from Arizona State University, where he contributed drawings to the State Press, he worked as a text editor on Mort Walker's comic strips (Hi and Lois and Beetle Bailey).[1]

Together with Walker, he created Sam's Strip in 1961. It only lasted until 1963 but was resurrected as Sam and Silo in 1977, still with Walker. Dumas continued the comic strip on his own from 1995 on. In 1968, he also cooperated on all aspects of Boner's Ark. Apart from his work with Walker, Dumas also worked on other comic strips like Benchley with Mort Drucker and Rabbits Rafferty and McCall of the Wild with Mel Crawford.

In between his comics work, Dumas made numerous illustrations and cartoons. First selling them to the local Teen magazine, he soon was published in magazines and newspapers like The Washington Post, The New Yorker and The New York Times.[1] As a writer, he contributed essays to the Atlantic Monthly, the Smithsonian, and The Connoisseur.[2] He also published a childhood memoir, An Afternoon in Waterloo Park.

Dumas lives in Greenwich, Connecticut with his wife Gail and their three sons.[1]

Awards

  • 1971: In his spare time, Dumas is devoted mostly to sports. A talented handball player, Dumas has won numerous titles, including the New England championship in 1971.
  • 1985: Adamson Award for his work on Sam's Strip and Sam and Silo[3]
  • 2005: Convocation Speaker of the Arizona State University College of Liberal Arts & Sciences[4]

References

  1. ^ a b c Bio at Torstar Syndication Services
  2. ^ Arizona State University Department of English Newsletter
  3. ^ Adamson Awards
  4. ^ ASU Alumni Awards

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