aka Baby Jery
Gerard Millan Perichon AKA Baby Jery
RESUME
TEACHING — I’ve taught “Media Illustration Art” at the Apple Skills Exchange and for one year at the School of Visual Arts under Marshall Arisman, who was then head of the Dept. of Illustration. I taught the art and the history of Comics and Cartooning after promoting the beginning of such courses with Mr. Arisman in his department. I did this out of respect for a personal friendship with Burne Hogarth, the deceased creator of the newspaper comic strip Tarzan who also was one of the two founders of the School of Visual Arts. The course proved to be very popular and the School of Visual Arts now gives extensive courses in this area of illustration.
EDITORIAL ILLUSTRATION for NEWSPAPERS & MAGAZINES — From 1970 onwards I have been published in the following publications: The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Washington Star, Discovery Magazine, Parents Magazine, Family Health Magazine, Children’s Digest, T.V. Cable Weekly, Harper’s Magazine, Intellectual Digest, The American Lawyer Magazine, The Arkansas Gazette, The National Lampoon, Insect Fear Comics #1, Country Music Magazine, Oui Magazine, Penthouse Magazine, Iron Horse Magazine, Gallery Magazine, Genesis Magazine, The Soho Weekly News, The East Village Other, The San Francisco Oracle, and many other small publications over the years. My primary focus has always been editorial illustration mostly in black & white using a brush and Indian ink sometimes incorporating Comix and cartooning.
ART DIRECTION, CALLIGRAPHY, LETTER & LOGO DESIGN, T-SHIRT DESIGN, FLAG DESIGN, and general GRAPHIC DESIGN — From 1965 to 1970 I worked as Art Director for ESP RECORDS, primarily a jazz recording company of this period. I’ve also done graphic design and logo work for other publications and businesses.
In 1981., I produced the first rainbow American flag design (“NEW GLORY”) for which I obtained a design patent. The flag was used by many groups on a non-exclusive basis. In 1984 it appeared on national television during Jesse Jackson’s keynote speech at the Democratic National Convention in S.F., CA.
FURNITURE DESIGN & FABRICATION — In the early Nineties I worked with the Lakota Sioux. On a volunteer basis, we worked together to create a woodworking workshop for the community of Porcupine in the Pine Ridge Reservation of South Dakota.
FINE ART EXHIBITION — I have painted for various fine art exhibitions. My focus has been on using imagery in the fine arts as another extension of the Communication Arts and Media.
EDUCATION: 1963 B.F.A. Rhode Island School of Design (non-matriculated).
Over the years I’ve observed the quality and depth of your classes and programs, and I would be honored to have you peruse my resume for the possibility of working for your excellent educational institution.
I am willing and able to teach in any of my areas of art to suit your interests and needs, although my specialty is in Communication Arts.
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My last-ever New Year’s Eve in Soho
BY HARRY PINCUS, December 31, 2022.
Baby Jery passed away this year, at a good old age. He had lost his studio, and experienced long-term homelessness, but kept on for more than 40 years with a graphic novel that he called “A Patriot’s Guide to Silence.” His struggles are perhaps fitting for an artist as, after all, we are not intended to be wealthy owners of anything, other than our ideas, and our passions.
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YoYo Magazine
From the Ullage Group article:
Yoyo, or, to give it its full title, Tales n’ Tails for the One n’ Every Yoyo, was published in January 1972, in NYC. It advertised subscriptions, but this seems to have been the only issue, cheerily numbered 00.
It was published and edited by the painter and cartoonist Gerard Millan Perichon, who usually drew under the name of Babi (or Baby) Jery. He contributed to the New York Times, the East Village Other, and the National Lampoon, among others.
Yoyo is a sort of underground comic book in a magazine format, a big book at 96 pages. The contributors are an interesting bunch: veteran underground artist John Thompson (with an uncharacteristic doodle), Michael O’Donoghue (with a photo funny), Tomi Ungerer (with an excerpt from his book Compromises), the Belgian animator Picha. Perichon includes a couple of his trippy stories; the illustrator Paul Spina has pages of his hallucinatory art; and the Hawaiian painter Byron Goto indulges in a raunchy story about cowboys. Thirty pages are devoted to “The Scarecrow,” an inscrutable and inky picture story by Brad Holland, who went to become an influential illustrator. It’s an odd mix: underground comics by artists who usually didn’t draw comics.
Above are some samples.
