Jerry Scott and Rick Kirkman launched Baby Blues in 1990, and today the strip appears in over 1,200 newspapers in 28 countries and 13 languages. They have each been awarded the National Cartoonists Society's Reuben Award for Best Cartoonist of the Year. Jerry is also the co-creator of the syndicated comic strip Zits . He lives in central coastal California, and Rick lives in Phoenix, Arizona.