Jerry Craft
| Jerry Craft | |
|---|---|
| Born |
January 22, 1963 New York City |
| Nationality | American |
| Area(s) | Cartoonist |
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Notable works
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Mama's Boyz |
| Awards | Glyph Awards, 2013 |
| http://www.jerrycraft.net | |
Jerry Craft (born January 22, 1963, in New York City) is an American cartoonist and children's book illustrator best known for his syndicated newspaper comic strip Mama's Boyz. Craft is one of only a handful of syndicated African American cartoonists in the US.
Craft grew up in Washington Heights and attended the Ethical Culture Fieldston School. He graduated from the School of Visual Arts with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in advertising.
Craft worked for twelve years as a copywriter for various advertising agencies, during which time he also got his first comics work on projects for Marvel Comics and Harvey Comics. Moving on to King Features Syndicate, Craft spent eight years writing sales brochures. This connection with King Features led to the syndication of Craft's Mama's Boyz beginning in 1995.
Craft later worked as editorial director of the Sports Illustrated for Kids website, before leaving that job in October 2006 to become a full-time cartoonist.
Craft performs regular cartooning workshops at schools, camps, and libraries.
Mama's Boyz follows the lives of African American single mother Pauline Porter and her two teenage sons Tyrell and Yusuf. Other characters include Pauline's brother Greg and their parents.
Mama's Boys is the outgrowth of a prior strip called The Outside View, which Craft first self-syndicated in 1987. In 1990, he adapted some elements of The Outside View to create Mama's Boyz, which he self-syndicated to New York's The City Sun and eventually a number of other weekly papers across the country. In 1995, Mama's Boyz was picked up for weekly syndication by King Features.
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