Jerry Craft

Jerry Craft is an American cartoonist and children's book illustrator, best known for the syndicated newspaper strip Mama's Boyz and for the graphic novels New Kid, Class Act, and School Trip. Born in Harlem in 1963, Craft grew up in Washington Heights and is one of only a handful of syndicated African American cartoonists in the US. New Kid follows Jordan Banks, an artistic middle schooler adjusting to a prestigious private school, and it won the Newbery Medal in 2020.