Martin Landau “Space 1999” Cartoonist
At the age of 17, Landau started working as a cartoonist for the Daily News, illustrating Billy Rose’s column “Pitching Horseshoes” and also assisting Gus Edson on the comic strip The Gumps during the 1940s and 1950s, eventually drawing the “Sunday strip” for Edson. (Some sources confuse him with comic book artist Kenneth Landau, and incorrectly claim that he drew for comic books using the name Ken Landau as a pseudonym.) At 22, he quit the Daily News to concentrate on theater acting.
