Kerry G. Johnson is an experienced cartoonist, caricaturist, graphic designer and humorous illustrator. He is an award-winning artist whose work has been published in local and national publications and on web sites.

His art career started when first drew cartoons for his high school yearbook in his hometown of Nashville, Tennessee. Those cartoons eventually lead him to be able to draw a weekly strip for the Nashville Banner newspaper. Kerry's first job as a “paid” illustrator was drawing caricatures at the Opryland Entertainment Park in Nashville.

After high school, he graduated from the Columbus College of Art and Design and The Ohio State University. Throughout his college career, he freelanced for several publications and founded Kerry G. Johnson Design and Caricatures by Kerry.

He is currently the Art Director and Director of Special Publications Manager at the American Physical Society in College Park, Md. Before joining APS, he worked as the newsroom graphics director at the Baltimore Sun newspaper. Before joining the Sun, he worked as graphics editor for the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review and as a graphic reporter at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. He also has worked at other news organizations in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Washington, D.C.

As an experienced visual journalist and designer, Kerry has played a major role in numerous award-winning feature page layouts, illustrations and information graphics centerpieces.

While in Pittsburgh, Kerry drew editorial and political cartoons for national publications and did other freelance design and humorous illustration projects. His cartoons for the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review and New Pittsburgh Courier newspapers have been included in the annual Pelican Publishing's “Best Cartoons of the Year” book by Charles Brooks.

He also illustrates caricatures at private homes, schools, corporate functions and local festivals. He mostly recently illustrated a series of books for middle-school students about famous physicists.

Additionally, his work has appeared in magazines, web sites and other national media outlets including 60 Minutes, KRT (Knight-Ridder Tribune Graphics) and Gannett News Service.

Here is a list of some of the newspapers where his cartoons, caricatures, illustrations and information graphics have appeared:

• APS News
• Baltimore Examiner
• Baltimore Sun
• Chicago Tribune
• Columbus Dispatch (Ohio)
• Columbus Call & Post (Ohio)
• Dublin This Week (Ohio)
• Greensburg Tribune-Review (PA)
• Los Angeles Times
• Muskegon Tribune (Michigan)
• Nashville Banner
• New Pittsburgh Courier
• New York Newsday
• North Hills News Record (PA)
• Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
• Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
• USA Today
• Valley News Dispatch (PA)
• Worthington This Week (Ohio)
  
  
  He's a member in these groups:

• National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ)
• American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA)
• Society for News Design (SND)
• National Caricaturist Network (NCN)
• Society of National Assoc. Publications (SNAP)
• Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. (ΑΦΑ)