Jerry Marcus (June 27, 1924,

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– July 22, 2005,

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) was a prolific freelance gag cartoonist who also created the syndicated newspaper comic strip '' Trudy''. A high school drop-out, Marcus was rejected by the Navy during

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as underweight, so in 1943, he signed on with the Merchant Marine, shipping out on aviation fuel tankers in the North Atlantic. After gaining the required weight, he joined the Navy and was assigned to the

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in the Philippines."Jerry Marcus, leading cartoonist, actor," Hersham Acorn Newspapers
/ref> After his 1946 discharge, he attended New York's Cartoonists and Illustrators School. As a freelancer, he was published in ''

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'', '' Look'', ''

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'', ''

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'' and other leading magazines.

''Trudy''

When he launched ''Trudy'' in 1963, it was distributed to more than 75 newspapers by

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. 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.

References

https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1916&dat=19890302&id=jSIiAAAAIBAJ&sjid=fXQFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2569,319186

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American comic strip cartoonists 1924 births 2005 deaths United States Merchant Mariners of World War II United States Navy personnel of World War II Seabees American expatriates in the Philippines {{US-cartoonist-stub