Career
Gerard was a 1931 graduate of Wabash College in Crawfordsville, Indiana. He was among the Crawfordsville-area cartoonists known as “The Sugar Crick Art School,” Bill Holman perhaps being the most famous of the group. Between 1953 and 1966, Gerard drew the newspaper comic strip Will-Yum.
Will-Yum was also featured in a Dell comic book
Gerard was also the creator of Citizen Smith, a strip that featured an everyman beset by everyday frustrations. This work appeared in The Indianapolis Star in the 1970s and 1980s.
Dave Gerard was the mayor of Crawfordsville, Indiana, from 1972 to 1976.
