Pregnant Women Get in FREE!
Creators of Comic Strip Baby Blues—
Jerry Scott and Rick Kirkman—
at the Charles M. Schulz Museum 
April 27, 2008 at 1 p.m.

April 7, 2008—Santa Rosa, CA.

Note: If you would like any of the images in this release at a higher resolution to print in a publication, contact Gina Huntsinger at gina@schulzmuseum.org.

Jerry Scott and Rick Kirkman, creators of the popular comic strip Baby Blues, will be at the Charles M. Schulz Museum on Sunday, April 27, 2008 at 1 p.m.  Immediately following their talk, Jerry and Rick will be available to sell and sign their new book, X-Treme Parenting: A Baby Blues Treasury.

In keeping with the family theme of Baby Blues, pregnant women will be admitted FREE all day. “We think they should know what they are in for,” laughs Jessica Ruskin, Schulz Museum Education Director and mother of two young children.

Baby Blues is truly a collaborative effort between the two longtime friends; they work together from 1,000 miles apart to bring Baby Blues to their fans on a daily basis. Jerry writes the dialogue from his home in California, and Rick brings the words to life with his artwork from his studio in Arizona.

When the strip first appeared on the comics page in 1990, Rick had two young children. Jerry thought Rick’s experiences as a parent were very funny, and he wrote about what he saw at the Kirkmans' home—temper tantrums, dirty diapers, and teething pains. Jerry’s writing combined with Rick’s superb artwork humorously capture the trials and tribulations of parenthood for people around the world. 

The strip now appears in over 1,100 newspapers in over 25 countries and in 14 languages, and it has been collected in 30 anthologies and books. In 1995, Baby Blues was awarded the "Best Comic Strip of the Year" award by the National Cartoonists Society. Since the strip’s first appearance in 1990, Jerry has also become a parent—no wonder his writing has only gotten better!