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Jerry Warshaw passes away at age 78

By Alan Gardner
November 1, 2007

Jerry Warshaw, who worked on the American Adventure comic strip and was the editorial cartoon for the Evanston beacon (IL) has passed away at the age of 78. Mark Brown, a Sun-Times columnist, has a fond obit.

Over the years, Jerry’s cartoons appeared in everything from Playboy to Rotarian Magazine to newspaper ads for the old First National Bank. He illustrated more than 20 children’s books, but was particularly proud of his own, A Funny Drawing Lesson, which he would use to give drawing lessons in schools — and later in the nursing home.

Community Comments

#1 Allan Holtz
November/1/2007 @ 9:17 am

Where did you get the info that Warshaw worked on “The American Adventure”? It’s not in the linked obit. As far as I know the cartoonists on that feature were Dan Heilman and Edwin Haeberle.

Best,
Allan Holtz
#2 Alan Gardner
November/1/2007 @ 9:51 am

According to his bio over on the NCS web site, he was an assistant to Dan - which is why I only reported that he “worked” on the feature. Sorry if that was confusing.
#3 D.D.Degg
November/1/2007 @ 5:34 pm

Paul Leiffer and Hames Ware’s Comic Strip Project has this for their Jerry Warshaw entry:
Warshaw, Jerry
b. June 12, 1929, Chicago, Ill.
US Army service
asst. cs “The American Adventure” ‘50-’51
illustrator
studio artist ‘58-’70
freelance illustrator and designer ‘70—
author, The I Can’t Draw Book ’71
r. CA [Contemporary Authors]

And they have this for their The American Adventure entry:
THE AMERICAN ADVENTURE
art Dan Heilman ‘49-’51
asst. Jerry Warshaw ‘50-‘51
Edwin Haeberle ‘51

http://hometown.aol.com/comicsproj2/tempindex.html
#4 Allan Holtz
November/1/2007 @ 8:46 pm

Thanks Alan and DD!

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