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BORN IN SOUTH BEND, 2 MAY 1955
The tie. Jerry Scott was born in South Bend on 2 May 1955 — and his publisher's biography ties the birth to the trade in one stroke: he was introduced to the newspaper business delivering the South Bend Tribune from his bicycle, on the paper route that preceded the career. The strips are drawn and written from California today; the start is this city's.
The writing shelf. Scott writes both of his strips and draws one. He took over Ernie Bushmiller's Nancy in 1983 and wrote and drew it into the mid-1990s. With Rick Kirkman he created Baby Blues — Kirkman draws, Scott writes — a strip about new parenthood whose collections run from Baby Blues (1991) onward, in dozens of volumes from Andrews McMeel. With Jim Borgman he created Zits, which debuted in July 1997 — Borgman draws, Scott writes — and the collections run likewise. The King Features biography records the fact that measures the shelf: Scott is one of only four cartoonists in history to have two strips each carried in more than a thousand newspapers. In March 2026 he announced the end of both strips, Baby Blues closing in March 2027 — the announcement stands in Today and in the trade record; the writing's documented course — dozens of collections between the two properties — is this section's to keep. The Pulitzer that stands on the Zits masthead is Borgman's, for his Cincinnati editorial cartoons, and Awards has dispelled the confusion; the writing is Scott's.
Sources:
- King Features Syndicate (Comics Kingdom), creator biography — the South Bend birth on 2 May 1955, the Tribune paper route, the Nancy years (1983 to the mid-1990s), and the two strips in over a thousand newspapers each.
- Andrews McMeel Publishing, series catalogs — the Baby Blues collections from Baby Blues (1991) and the Zits collections from Zits (1998); Zits' debut in July 1997.
- Awards (this record) — the Borgman Pulitzer attribution, printed at its strength.