On this day, April 1, 1917, comic book writer and illustrator Sheldon Mayer was born in New York City. Mayer began contributing to comic books in 1935, producing illustrations, house advertisements, and even cover illustrations. Over the years Mayer was involved with the creation of Superman, Green Lantern, Wonder Woman, and All-Star Comics. He also produced
On this day, March 31, 2013, illustrator Bob Clarke died in Seaford, Delaware. At age 17 Clarke worked as an assistant on Ripley’s Believe It or Not drawing the strip of Ripley’s found trivia. In the Army, Clarke worked for Stars and Stripes. Clarke’s work often appeared in advertisements and in MAD magazine, illustrating more than
On this day, March 30, 1868, Maud Humphrey was born in Rochester, New York. She studied at the National Academy of Design and at the Art Students League in New York selling her first illustration in 1884. Her specialty was illustrations of children and her work appears in many of the major magazines and also
On this day, March 29, 1959, George Matthews Harding died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Harding studied at Boston Tech, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and with Howard Pyle in Wilmington, Delaware. His first illustrations were published in 1903. Oakley joined the art faculty of the University of Pennsylvania in 1915 and was one of the eight
On this day, March 28, 1918, pulp illustrator Robert C. Stanley, Jr. was born in Wichita, Kansas. Stanley attended the Kansas City Art Institute for one year and then went on to work as a staff artist illustrating for a local newspaper. In the late 30s Stanley moved to New York and initially did graphic and
On this day, March 27, 1881, illustrator Thornton Oakley was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Oakley studied architecture at the University of Pennsylvania and then went to Wilmington, Delaware to study illustration with Howard Pyle, saying later that until then he had never held a painter’s palette in his hands. Oakley went on to have a 40+
On this day, March 26, 1962, illustrator Anton Otto Fischer died in Woodstock, New York. Fischer immigrated to the U. S. from Germany. He worked as a model and handyman for illustrator Arthur Burdette Frost and then went to Paris to study art. He subsequently studied with Howard Pyle in Wilmington. Delaware. Fischer illustrated for Harper’s
On this day, March 25, 1890, illustrator Joseph G. Chenoweth was born in Shoals, Indiana. Chenoweth studied art at the John Herron Art Institute in Indianapolis and then at the Cincinnati Art Institute. He moved to Chicago and began to work as an illustrator. Near the end of the 1920s Chenoweth moved to New York City
On this day, March 24, 1992, Campbell Grant died Carpinteria, California. Grant studied at the Santa Barbara School of the Arts and then worked as an animator and story director for Disney Studios and later taught at the CateSchool in Carpinteria.
On this day, March 23, 1961, cartoonist and caricaturist Albert Bloch died. He studied at the St. Louis School of Fine Arts and produced comic strips and cartoons for the St. Louis Star. He worked as a caricaturist and illustrator for The Mirror and after WWI he taught at the Academy of Fine Arts in Chicago