| Jerry Dumas | |
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| Born | Gerald Dumas 1930 Detroit, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Area(s) | artist, writer |
| Notable works | Sam and Silo |
| Awards | full list |
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Jerry Dumas (born 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.
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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]