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Electricmastro

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  1. A thought recently came to me is that when Superman lifts himself from the ground, it’s called science fiction, yet if Zatara does the same thing, it’s called magic, as if it’s impossible for anyone else to perceive what Superman does as magic.
  2. Ah, that would be Robert Fabian Butts (1919-2008): https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/72983187/robert-fabian-butts
  3. Maurice Kashuba (1917-1973): https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/103848598/ http://bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=KASHUBA%2C+MAURICE Frederick Strothmann (1872-1958): https://art.famsf.org/frederick-strothmann http://www.bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=STROTHMAN Sylvester Joseph Sowinski (1923-1986): https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/posse-416867632 http://bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=SOWINSKI%2C+SYL Milton Hammer (1914-1993): https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/144924332/ http://bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=HAMMER%2C+MILT William Michael Newton (1924-2014): https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/chicagotribune/name/william-newton-obituary?pid=173930658 http://www.bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=NEWTON%2c+BILL Harold Ellsworth Lockwood (1918-2017): https://www.hotspringsfh.com/obituaries/Harold-Lockwood/#!/Obituary http://bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=LOCKWOOD%2C+HAL Arthur Meredith Gates (1916-1976): https://www.nytimes.com/1976/12/07/archives/arthur-m-gates-60-cartoonist-drawings-ran-in-280-newspapers.html http://bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=GATES%2C+ART Howard Paul Wyrauch (1919-2008): https://www.niagara-gazette.com/archives/howard-wyrauch/article_96637442-dc72-5067-a53f-19d3f2ae0637.html http://bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=TRUETT%2C+W. Kosti Selim Ruohomaa (1913-1961): https://knox.villagesoup.com/p/ruohomaa-exhibit-at-finnish-house/1197900 http://bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=RUOHOMAA%2c+KOSTI William Alan Discount (1929-2007): https://www.artmajeur.com/en/billdisc/presentation http://bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=DISCOUNT%2C+BILL
  4. Arthur Ashod Pinajian (1914-1999): “Pinajian, the son of Armenian holocaust survivors, was a native of Union City, New Jersey. He started as a cartoonist in the 1930s and found considerable success fashioning comic strips for Quality, Marvel, and Centaur Comics. After World War II, during which he earned the Bronze Star for valor, he rejected commercial art, attended the Art Students League in New York, and committed himself to the pursuit of serious painting. Prior to his many years in Bellport with Armen, he rented a studio in Woodstock, New York, and there and in West New York, New Jersey, he began to wrestle with the challenges of being a modern artist. This meant painting in a variety of styles ranging from the figurative to the abstract.” http://www.pinajianart.com/largeformat/biography.html http://bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=PINAJIAN%2C+ART
  5. Arthur Ashod Pinajian (1914-1999): “Pinajian, the son of Armenian holocaust survivors, was a native of Union City, New Jersey. He started as a cartoonist in the 1930s and found considerable success fashioning comic strips for Quality, Marvel, and Centaur Comics. After World War II, during which he earned the Bronze Star for valor, he rejected commercial art, attended the Art Students League in New York, and committed himself to the pursuit of serious painting. Prior to his many years in Bellport with Armen, he rented a studio in Woodstock, New York, and there and in West New York, New Jersey, he began to wrestle with the challenges of being a modern artist. This meant painting in a variety of styles ranging from the figurative to the abstract.” http://www.pinajianart.com/largeformat/biography.html http://bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=PINAJIAN%2C+ART
  6. Lawrence Tyler Dresser (1888-1980): https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Tyler_Genealogy/mRjGDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq="lawrence+tyler+dresser"&pg=PA637&printsec=frontcover http://www.bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=DRESSER%2c+LAWRENCE John Cassone (1923-2008): https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/dailybreeze/obituary.aspx?n=john-cassone&pid=119727054 http://bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=CASSONE%2C+JOHN Otto Joseph William Eppers (1893-1955): https://www.qcwa.org/w2ea-00012-sk.htm http://bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=EPPERS%2C+OTTO Joseph John Cavallo (1922-2020): https://usobit.com/obituaries-2020/06/joseph-cavallo-july-12-1922-june-2-2020-age-97/ http://bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=CAVALLO%2C+JOEY Ellis Eringer (1924-2008): http://papadukeeringer.blogspot.com/ http://bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=ERINGER%2C+ELLIS Robert Fabian Butts (1919-2008): https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/72983187/robert-fabian-butts http://bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=BUTTS%2C+BOB George Meyerriecks (1921-1992): https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/meyerriecks-george-the-main-event-oil-on-artists--107-c-gdaraynkku http://bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=MEYERIECKS%2C+G. Robert Bruce Bugg (1920-1993): http://todaysinspiration.blogspot.com/2008/09/nearly-anonymous-robert-bugg.html http://bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=BUGG%2C+BOB Andrew August Bensen (1902-1976): https://tellersofweirdtales.blogspot.com/2012/02/andrew-bensen-1902.html http://bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=BENSEN%2C+ANDREW Franklin Newell Beaven (1906-1975): https://www.newspapers.com/clip/50748699/obituary-for-franklin-newell-beaven/ http://bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=BEAVEN%2C+FRANK Arthur Ashod Pinajian (1914-1999): http://www.pinajianart.com/largeformat/biography.html http://bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=PINAJIAN%2C+ART John Ralph Hearne (1924-1985): http://todaysinspiration.blogspot.com/2008/01/textbook-example-jack-hearne.html http://bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=HEARNE%2C+JACK Herbert Tauss (1929-2001): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Tauss http://bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=TAUSS%2C+HERB August Maria Froehlich (1880-1952): https://www.lambiek.net/artists/f/froehlich_august.htm http://bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=FROEHLICH%2C+AUGUST Philip Willis Hustis (1916-1991): https://www.askart.com/artist/Phillip_Hustis/11330477/Phillip_Hustis.aspx http://bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=HUSTIS%2C+PHIL
  7. Victoriano Martín (1927-????): https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=http://historiaspasado.blogspot.com/2008/01/vic-martinel-pionero-neoyorkino.html http://bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=MARTIN%2C+VIC Robert Globerman (1929-2016): https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/name/robert-globerman-obituary?pid=182373546 http://bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=GLOBERMAN%2C+BOB Joseph Edmund Peckover (1896-1982): https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Peckover&prev=search&pto=aue http://bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=PECKOVER%2C+EDMUND Rodney Thomson (1878-1941): https://www.davidsongalleries.com/collections/rodney-thomson http://bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=THOMPSON%2C+RODNEY Robert Edgar Lamme (1917-1998): https://firefightingnews.com/firefighters-sudden-death-broke-family/ http://bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=LAMME%2C+BOB Lachlan MacLachlan Field (1913-2004): https://www.nhpr.org/post/thanksgiving-tradition-snow-geese-migration-vermont#stream/0 http://bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=FIELD%2C+LOCHLAN Harvey Kenneth Fuller (1918-2017): https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/theday/obituary.aspx?n=harvey-k-fuller&pid=187336369&fhid=6913 http://bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=FULLER%2C+HARVEY Robert A. Boyajian (1922-2012): http://brascosonmemorialfuneralhome.frontrunnerpro.com/book-of-memories/1135902/Robert-A-Boyajian/obituary.php http://bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=BOYAJIAN%2C+ROBERT Craig Joseph Fox (1895-1965): https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/189541845/craig-joseph-fox http://bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=FOX%2C+CRAIG Grieg Hovsep Chapian (1913-1996): https://fineart.ha.com/itm/paintings/grieg-hovsep-chapian-american-1913-1995-the-old-teacher-1932oil-on-masonite28-x-22-inches-711-x-559/a/5101-86253.s http://bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=CHAPIAN%2C+GRIEG Stephen Bern Dahlman (1912-1958): https://www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/psychiana/items/psychiana545.html http://bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=DAHLMAN%2C+STEVE Kenneth Vernon Landau (1926-2012): https://www.kennethlandau.com/ http://bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=LANDAU%2C+KEN
  8. Walter Howard Chapman (1912-2015): “Comic book addicts will be interested to know that one of the creators of funnypaper art is now joined with the 84th infantry division stationed at Camp Claiborne. He is Cpl. Walter Howard Chapman who in his pre-war days worked as a cartoonist with the Jack Binder Studios in New York and spent his time dreaming of drawings for Captain Midnight, Doc Savage, Nick Carter, and The Shadow. He is like the boogie-woogie piano player who composes a symphony during his spare time. He studied at the Art Students League in New York, one of the country's outstanding art schools, and he worked under such well-known American artists as Henry Keller and John Corhina. His pictures have been exhibited in museums all over the country, and he painted a large mural for the University of Toledo. More than anything else, he enjoys painting portraits and hopes someday to devote most of his artistic energy to this work. Drawing cartoons is a pleasant past-time, and the pecuniary compensation is very high. That is its most attractive feature, Chapman assured us, but it lacks the real soul satisfaction of serious art. Chapman has been with the 84th Division since its activation at Camp Howze, Texas. He is now the No. 1 gunner in a mortar squad.” - https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/213312818/ “He fought overseas during World War II, participating in the Battle of the Bulge as a member of Company H, 334th Infantry Regiment 84th Division. He was a cartoonist for Stars and Stripes while in the Army and received a Bronze Star for his combat service. While in the service, Walter illustrated the book "The Battle of Germany" by Theodore Draper. He also has several illustrations included in the book "The Liberators" by William Hirsh. Walter returned to Toledo and established himself in the local art community, eventually opening Chapman Art Gallery where he could paint and sell his works exclusively. His professional memberships included Allied Artists of America, Watercolor USA Honor Society, Ohio Watercolor Society, Ohio Realists, Northwest Ohio Watercolor Society, the Toledo Artists Club, and the Toledo Museum of Art. Walter was a member of the Toledo Tile Club since 1954, meeting every Tuesday night with fellow artists, and also Sylvania First United Methodist Church. He and his wife, Jean, enjoyed traveling and spent their winters in Arizona for over 30 years.” - https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/toledoblade/obituary.aspx?n=walter-chapman&pid=175145684&fhid=15375 - https://84thinfantrydivisionphotoswordpresscom.wordpress.com/2015/09/15/84th-division-after-action-report-covers-painted-by-walter-chapman/
  9. Myron Strauss (1917-1999), who was actually approached about his Centaur Comics work by a high school student around 1980: http://www.outofbodies.com/sketchbook/strauss.html
  10. Rob Stolzer wrote a good article about him, which goes into his style and possible influences, including Nell Brinkley and Franklin Booth. https://inkslingers.ink/2020/08/25/h-g-peter-from-judge-to-wonder/
  11. Well if Al Luster was 56 by the time of his passing in 1980, then he’d have presumably been born in the mid-1920s. Going by that, my research points me to the Albert Berry Luster born in Bremerton, Washington in 1924. https://www.fold3.com/image/649178129?terms=luster https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8099462/albert-b-luster https://sortedbybirthdate.com/small_pages/1924/19240329_1000.html
  12. Lawrence Tyler Dresser (1888-1980), artist who exhibited at the first modern art exhibit in 1913 (Classics Illustrated #82, April 1951):
  13. Might as well mention the artists said to have drawn for Camera Comics: Bill Allison Gerald Altman Ken Battefield Fred Bell Tex Blaisdell R. Louis Golden Tom Hickey Arnold Hicks Henry Kiefer Howard Larsen Norman Nodel Bob Oksner Roland Patenaude Louis Schroeder Gus Schrotter Leonard Starr Charlie Tomsey Maurice Whitman
  14. I’m inclined to agree. There does seem to be more consistency with Infantino’s work:
  15. Ah, where was it made known that it was by Infantino instead of Toth?
  16. A. S. Van Eerde (aka Andel Synco van Eerde), who was born in southern Africa in 1897 and died in New York in 1979. He was a commercial artist that designed advertisements for clients. He also sold his own fine art and was a writer/illustrator that did covers and interiors for magazines like "American Legion Weekly", and comic books. He had a short-lived comic strip called "2038 AD: An Excursion to Mars", that ran only four installments in "Amazing Mystery Funnies" comic book series published by Centaur between 1938-1940. - https://www.eclectibles.com/product-p/22021101.htm
  17. I do see similarities, though Meskin seemed to have his human proportions down by 1946. Kane also has good proportions, though he noticeably tended to draw the hand area of the arms as if being smaller than the rest of the arm, as if it’s more deflated/bonier, regardless of how old or muscular the character is.