Dave Gerard

Who was Dave Gerard?

Dave Gerard was a prolific magazine humor cartoonist from the 1940s through to the 1960s, most notably for Collier's Weekly, Country Gentleman, and The Saturday Evening Post.

Gerard was a 1931 graduate of Wabash College in Crawfordsville, Indiana. He was among the Crawfordsville-area cartoonists known as “The Sugar Crick Art School,” Bill Holman perhaps being the most famous of the group.

Between 1953 and 1966, Gerard drew the newspaper comic strip Will-Yum. Will-Yum was also featured in a Dell comic book. Gerard was also the creator of Citizen Smith, a strip that featured an everyman beset by everyday frustrations; this work appeared in The Indianapolis Star in the 1970s and 1980s.

Dave Gerard was the mayor of Crawfordsville, Indiana, from 1972 to 1976.