Jack Berrill was born in Brooklyn, NY, in 1923 and started working for the Eastern Color Printing Company after he returned from his service in World War II. There he worked on the comic book line, including 'Famous Funnies'. Around 1955, Jack Berrill became an assistant to Martin Branner on his newspaper strip 'Winnie Winkle'. Three years later, he created his own strip called 'Gil Thorp', a sports strip which is still running, continued by Jerry Jenkins and Ray Burns. Jack Berrill was forced by illness to leave the strip in 1994, and died of cancer in March, 1996.
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