Ballard Street PanelBallard Street PanelBy Jerry Van AmerongenOffer visitors to your Web site the same daily comic strips and columns that appear in your newspaper!Add award-winning editorial commentary from top journalists. The same geographic exclusivity rules apply to the Web as they do in print. Any comics or columns that currently appear in your paper are available to you for your Web site. And, since space is virtually limitless on the Internet, you may consider adding a few newer features that you may not have been able to find space for in your newspaper.The potential for advertising revenue for your paper's site is tremendous when you offer readers the columns and cartoons they enjoy in your print newspaper and extra features you might not have the space for in print. For rates and availability, please contact: info(at)knightfeatures.co.ukAbout Jerry Van AmerongenFrom 1980 to1990, Jerry Van Amerongen’s zany revolutionary cartoon panel, The Neighborhood graced the comic pages of newspapers across the country. Along with Gary Larson’s The Far Side, it redefined the single panel gag cartoon with short doses of sophisticated and surreal humor. For creative reasons (and maybe a few contractual reasons as well), Van Amerongen discontinued The Neighborhood and began Ballard Street in 1991. It ran in strip form for nearly two years before returning to the single panel format, which seems to be a better vehicle for his humor.Jerry was born and raised in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He spent the first 17 years of his professional life in corporate sales, marketing and product management, coming to cartooning at the age of 40. Jerry’s cartoon ideas come from scribbles and drawings as often as they do from preconceived ideas.The drawings themselves rely on facial expressions and body postures to give readers additional information beyond the caption, providing the motivation behind the action. Boyhood memories shaped by the ethnic influences of his Dutch and Polish heritage, images of roly-poly women in print dresses and rotund men in baggy trousers, shape the look of his characters. “Regardless of our physical appearance, we see ourselves as having wrinkles and rumples on the inside. We all perceive ourselves as having big bottoms”.In April of 2004, Jerry’s Giclee Prints and some original pieces were presented during a one-man show at the Every Picture Tells A Story Gallery in Santa Monica, CA. In May of 2006 Ballard Street was awarded the Best Newspaper Cartoon Panel Of The Year Award by the National Cartoonist Society. Ballard Street was awarded the same honor in 2004.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Download our printable Knight Features List Here.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>See a sample.Please contact Gaby Martin for further details: gaby(at)knightfeatures.co.uk>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>©MMVIII Knight Features



	About Jerry Van Amerongen From 1980 to1990, Jerry Van Amerongen’s zany revolutionary cartoon panel, The Neighborhood graced the comic pages of newspapers across the country. Along with Gary Larson’s The Far Side, it redefined the single panel gag cartoon with short doses of sophisticated and surreal humor. For creative reasons (and maybe a few contractual reasons as well), Van Amerongen discontinued The Neighborhood and began Ballard Street in 1991. It ran in strip form for nearly two years before returning to the single panel format, which seems to be a better vehicle for his humor. Jerry was born and raised in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He spent the first 17 years of his professional life in corporate sales, marketing and product management, coming to cartooning at the age of 40. Jerry’s cartoon ideas come from scribbles and drawings as often as they do from preconceived ideas.The drawings themselves rely on facial expressions and body postures to give readers additional information beyond the caption, providing the motivation behind the action. Boyhood memories shaped by the ethnic influences of his Dutch and Polish heritage, images of roly-poly women in print dresses and rotund men in baggy trousers, shape the look of his characters. “Regardless of our physical appearance, we see ourselves as having wrinkles and rumples on the inside. We all perceive ourselves as having big bottoms”. In April of 2004, Jerry’s Giclee Prints and some original pieces were presented during a one-man show at the Every Picture Tells A Story Gallery in Santa Monica, CA. In May of 2006 Ballard Street was awarded the Best Newspaper Cartoon Panel Of The Year Award by the National Cartoonist Society. Ballard Street was awarded the same honor in 2004.