About Jerry Marcus
Lived 1924 – 2005 (aged 81). Jerry Marcus was a cartoonist.
Jerry Marcus (June 27, 1924, Brooklyn, New York – July 22, 2005, Waterbury, Connecticut) was a prolific freelance gag cartoonist who also created the syndicated newspaper comic strip Trudy.
After his 1946 discharge, he attended New York's Cartoonists and Illustrators School. As a freelancer, he was published in The New Yorker, Look, The Saturday Evening Post, Ladies' Home Journal and other leading magazines.
Trudy When he launched Trudy in 1963, it was distributed to more than 75 newspapers by King Features Syndicate. Homemaker Trudy finds time to manage the house, her husband, their children and pets, including the family cat, Fatkat.
Marcus was 81 when he died in 2005 after a long illness.
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Who was Jerry Marcus?
cartoonist (1924–2005)
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Jerry Marcus was born on 27 June 1924.
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Jerry Marcus died on 22 July 2005.
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