Chronicles of the Revolutionary Nerd 21 featuring Jerry Craft

This weeks conversation interview will be the talented Jerry Craft, who has illustrated and/or written close to two dozen cildren's books and middle grade novels working directly with authors to bring their text to life. His newest book is a middle gradde novel co-written with his two teenage sons, Jaylen & Aren called:" The Offenders: Saving the World While Serving Detntion!"... an action/ adventure story designed to teach kids about the negative effects of bullying.

Jerry is also the creator of Mamas Boyz an award -winning comic strip that was distributed by King Featurez Syndicate from 1995- 2013; making him one of the few syndicated African- American cartoomists in the country. He has published three Mama's Boyz books. The first. Mama's Boyz: As American as Sweet Potato Pie! was named in Great books for African American Children.

Jerry is a graduate of the School of Visua Arts where he received his BFA degree in advertising. After working in the ad world for a dozen years as a copywriter, he got his first job as a cartoonist working as an assistant to Barbara Slate on a variety of comic books and Graphic Novels for Marvel and Harvey Comics, including  Sweet 16 and New Kids on the Block.