CARTOONIST JERRY VAN AMERONGEN OF BALLARD STREET
TO SPEAK AT CHARLES M. SCHULZ MUSEUM—
Saturday, October 20 at 1 p.m.
October 10, 2007— Santa Rosa, CA.
Award-winning cartoonist Jerry Van Amerongen, creator of the single-panel gag cartoon Ballard Street, will speak about his work at 1 p.m., and then sign his new book, Practicing People Skills on Ballard Street, from 2–3 p.m. Mr. Van Amerongen was awarded the National Cartoonists Society’s 2003 and 2005 Best Newspaper Cartoon Panel Award.
Mr. Van Amerongen was born and raised in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He spent the first 17 years of his professional life in corporate sales, marketing, and product management, coming to cartooning at the age of 40. His cartoon ideas come from scribbles and drawings as often as they do from preconceived ideas. The drawings themselves rely on facial expressions and body postures to give readers additional information beyond the caption, providing the motivation behind the action.
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