Jerry W. Holbert (November 9, 1958 – August 2, 2022) was an American cartoonist best known for his political cartoons.
He received the National Cartoonist Society Editorial Cartoon Award for the year 2000.
[2] Holbert worked for the Boston Herald newspaper, where he published editorial cartoons.
In October 2014, Holbert came under criticism for what many people viewed as a racist depiction of United States President Barack Obama which used the watermelon stereotype: Holbert pictured a White House intruder using the president's bathtub while recommending to Obama the use of watermelon-flavored toothpaste.
As a result, he retired from the Herald in 2018, but with his wife's assistance, continued drawing for Andrews McMeel until November 2020.