Jerry Buckley (cartoonist)

Gerald Bernard Buckley was born on August 10, 1932 in the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania neighborhood of Kensington, and attended parochial school at Ascension Parochial School^[1] and Northeast Catholic High School, graduating in 1950.^[2] He was inducted into that school’s Hall of Fame in 1996, along with Bil Keane.^[2] He attended the Philadelphia College of Art, during college, worked part-time at the N. W. Ayer & Son advertising agency in Philadelphia.^[1]

Buckley taught at the Philadelphia College of Art, the Philadelphia Art Institute, and the Bucks County Community College.^[1]

Buckley worked at the Express Newspapers in Bucks County, Pennsylvania and Mail newspapers of Burlington County, New Jersey.^[3] His editorial cartoons appeared in various local newspapers.^[1] He received the National Cartoonist Society Advertising and Illustration Award for 1994 and the Reuben Advertising plaque that very same year which was his third nomination in 9 years.^[4][5]

Buckley was married Shirley and lived in Levittown.^[4] He died of bacterial pneumonia in Langhorne, Pennsylvania on April 27, 2000, at the age of 67.^[1]

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