Jerry Moriarty (born January 15, 1938, in Binghamton, New York) is an American artist and teacher at the School of Visual Arts (SVA) in Manhattan.
After graduating he worked as a freelance magazine illustrator to support his Abstract Expressionist painting.
His cartoonist work Jack Survives was first published in the first number of Art Spiegelman´s RAW (magazine) in 1980, featured in later issues and first collected as a RAW-One-Shot, No.
[3] Other projects include A Visual Crime, four double-page illustrations accompanied with a short story in the 1990 anthology Gin & Comix and the Sally's Surprise series of multi-panel paintings.
Chris Ware credited him for "introducing solemnity and eternity in a medium that normally trades in the snappy and the lurid".