Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott, Co-Creators of Baby Blues

Rick Kirkman has been a cartoonist since he was a youngster in kindergarten. His artistic career includes working as a freelance designer and illustrator and creating gag cartoons for magazines. He also did studio drawing for an advertising agency and the Yellow Pages directories. Along with drawing Baby Blues, he continues work as a freelance humour illustrator, a profession he began in 1982. Rick and his wife Sukey have two daughters born in 1984 and 1987. They make their home in Arizona.

Jerry Scott also has a deep artistic flair. He has used his many talents in advertising as a staff artist, an art director at an art service, worked at a TV station and owned his own advertising agency.

Cartoon-wise, Jerry began his professional career in the mid-70's with a cartoon sale to the Saturday Evening Post. He drew and wrote the Nancy strip for twelve years, from 1993 until September 1995. He is also half of the imaginative pair creating the hilarious Zits comic strip. The other half of the team is Jim Borgman, a Pulitzer Prize winner and editorial cartoonist.

The cartoon features a 14-year-old Jeremy with great insights on the feelings and insecurities teenagers endure. And his oversized smelly shoes provide a lot of laughs too. Zits debuted through King Features in 200 newspapers in 1997 and has shot to more than 900 publications. The strip won NCS awards in 1998 and 1999 and received The Max and Moritz medal for Best International Comic Strip in 2000.

Though Rick's daughters provided the initial inspiration for Baby Blues, Jerry now has his own child to spark the wisdom and humour so loved in the cartoon. He and his wife Kim became parents in 1993 to their daughter, Abbey. Their home is in Malibu, California.

Baby Blues has grown into a prime-time television show on the WB network. After a successful summer debut in 2000, another season of 13 shows will be presented for the delight of Baby Blues fans.

Cartooning News: On May 25, 2002 Jerry Scott was awarded the Reuben by the National Cartoonists Society for Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year. He was recognized for his skilled cartooning of both Zits and Baby Blues.

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