flash Gordon by John Romita

flash Gordon by John Romita

Flash Gordon by John Romita.

John Romita Senior started drawing after spending a year in commercial art. His first jobs were for Stan Lee‘s Atlas group in 1949. Romita drew mostly horror and romance stories, but also several war, western and crime features for Western Publishing. After the folding of Atlas, he went to National, where he did anonymous romance stories for eight years. He then went back to Stan Lee, this time at Marvel. His first works were inking ‘Avengers’ and pencilling ‘Daredevil’ comics.

His most notable work became the ‘Amazing Spider-Man’ comic, which he did from 1966. Under Romita’s and Lee’s guidance, ‘Spider-Man’ became the quintessential antihero of the late 1960s and early 1970s. He left the ‘Spider-Man’ comic in the early 1970s, to become an art director at Marvel, working specifically in the Special Projects Department. Romita Sr. was engaged in product illustration and special designs and as Art Director for Marvel Books, the short-lived children’s book line. In 1977, he briefly did the artwork of the syndicated ‘Spider-Man’ newspaper comic. His son, John Romita Jr., is also a talented artist for Marvel.

Flash Gordon Sunday page of 1 December  2002.

Flash Gordon is the hero of a space opera adventure comic strip created by and originally drawn by Alex Raymond. First published January 7, 1934, the strip was inspired by and created to compete with the already established Buck Rogers adventure strip.

The Flash Gordon comic strip has been translated into a wide variety of media, including motion pictures, television and animated series. The latest version, Flash Gordon television series, appeared on the Syfy channel in the United States in 2007–2008.

Alexander Gillespie “Alex” Raymond (October 2, 1909 – September 6, 1956) was an American cartoonist, best known for creating Flash Gordon for King Features in 1934. The strip was subsequently adapted into many other media, from a series of movie serials (1936–1940) to a 1970s television series and a 1980 film.

Raymond’s father encouraged his love of drawing from an early age, leading him to become an assistant illustrator in the early 1930s on strips such as Tillie the Toiler and Tim Tyler’s Luck. Towards the end of 1933, Raymond created the epic Flash Gordon science-fiction comic strip to compete with the popular Buck Rogers comic strip and, before long, Flash was the more popular strip of the two. Raymond also worked on the jungle adventure saga Jungle Jim and spy adventure Secret Agent X-9 concurrently with Flash, though his increasing workload caused him to leave Secret Agent X-9 to another artist by 1935. He left the strips in 1944 to join the Marines, saw combat in the Pacific Ocean theater in 1945 and was demobilized in 1946. Upon his return from serving during World War II, Raymond created and illustrated the much-heralded Rip Kirby, a private detective comic strip. In 1956, Raymond was killed in a car crash at the age of 46; he was survived by his wife and five children.

He became known as “the artist’s artist”[4] and his much-imitated style can be seen on the many strips he illustrated. Raymond worked from live models furnished by Manhattan’s Walter Thornton Agency, as indicated in “Modern Jules Verne,” a profile of Raymond published in the Dell Four-Color Flash Gordon #10 (1942), showing how Thornton model Patricia Quinn posed as a character in the strip.

Numerous artists have cited Raymond as an inspiration for their work, including comic artists Jack KirbyBob KaneRuss Manning, and Al WilliamsonGeorge Lucas cited Raymond as a major influence for Star Wars. He was inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Famein 1996. Maurice Horn stated that Raymond unquestionably possessed “the most versatile talent” of all the comic strip creators. He has also described his style as “precise, clear, and incisive.” Carl Barks described Raymond as a man “who could combine craftsmanship with emotions and all the gimmicks that went into a good adventure strip.” Raymond’s influence on other cartoonists was considerable during his lifetime and did not diminish after his death.

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