On this day, July 22, 1941, comic artist and graphic designer Vaughn Bodē was born in Utica, New York. Bodē studied at SyracuseUniversity and eventually moved to Manhattan to join the staff of the East Village Other. His most famous comic character is Cheech Wizard in the Funny Pages of The National Lampoon.
On this day, July 21, 1927, illustrator Paul Blaisdell was born in Newport, Rhode Island. He studied at the New England School of Art and Design. Blaisdell was best known for his imaginative monsters in low-budget science fiction movies of the 1950s, such as It Conquered the World. In 1955 Blaisdell created the cover illustration for The
On this day, July 20, 1977, Elanna Allen was born in Chicago, Illinois. Allen is a creator of animated content for television and an author/illustrator. After training at Brown University and RISD, Allen began creating short films. She has worked for MTV Animation and for Nickelodeon. In 2011 she released her first children’s book, Itsy Mitsy
On this day, July 19, 1883, animator, inventor, and film director Max Fleischer was born in Krackow, Poland. After his family emigrated to the US they lived in New York City. While working for The Brooklyn Daily Eagle he began doing cartoons. Fleischer devised a mechanical way to simplify the process of animating movement by tracing
On this day, July 18, 1991, Robert Edward Weaver died in New Bern, North Carolina. Weaver studied at The Herron School of Art in Indianapolis. After his stint in the Navy, Weaver returned to The Herron where he taught illustration. His own work appeared in many of the major magazines of the 20th century.
On this day, July 17, 1998, Lillian Hoban died. Born in Philadelphia she attended the Philadelphia Museum School of Art following which she danced with the Martha Graham troupe and taught modern dance. After marriage to writer Russell Hoban she began to write her own stories and learned to draw. Their children’s story books continue to
On this day, July 16, 1883, Charles Sheeler was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He studied art at the School of Industrial Art and then at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. In the teens his paintings explored cubism. With his growing interest in photography, Sheeler’s paintings became more sharp-focused. In the late 1930s and early
On this day, July 15, 1898, illustrator Mead Schaeffer was born in Freedom Plains, New York. Schaeffer studied at Pratt Institute with Harvey Dunn and Charles Chapman. While at Pratt, Schaeffer began illustrating ‘Golden Boy’ books. During his career, Schaeffer illustrated books, magazine stories, and produced covers for The Saturday Evening Post.
On this day, July 14, 1910, animator and cartoonist William “Bill” Hanna was born in Melrose, New Mexico. Hanna briefly attended Compton City College in California, but in 1930 he join the Harman and Ising animation studio. Later while working at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Hanna met Joseph Barbera. Their collaboration led to the creation of the Hanna-Barbera studio
On this day, July 13, 1970, illustrator and artist Jeremy Caniglia was born in Omaha, Nebraska. After studying at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in Baltimore, Caniglia began working in book cover and magazine illustration specializing on images of horror.