Gerard, Dave.

David Charles Gerard (1909-2003) was an American cartoonist and creator of the comic strip Will-Yum and others.

Dave Gerard lived and worked most of his life in his home town of Crawfordsville, Indiana. Born there on June 18, 1909, Gerard graduated from local Wabash College in 1931 and that year his first cartoon appeared in Judge . After a few brief years in New York City during the Depression, he made his way back to Crawfordsville around 1934. Gerard's early career was spent largely as a magazine gag cartoonist and advertising illustrator. During the 1940s and 1950s, his cartoons appeared widely in national publications, including Collier's and the Saturday Evening Post .

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