The Photo of Jerry

The photo of Jerry Robinson below is the one the Associated Press supplied to its client news outlets along with their obituary…and no, I didn't get it from them. They got it from me. I was amused that many of those news sites captioned it something like, "In this undated photo provided by Mark Evanier, artist Jerry Robinson is shown. — Photo by AP." That's their way of saying, "If it turns out that this isn't Jerry Robinson, it's because that Evanier guy lied to us."

I took the photo at the big National Cartoonists Society bash in Scottsdale, Arizona in 1993. I believe the gent in the yellow shirt behind Jerry is Bil Keane…another past president of the N.C.S. who left us recently.