Comic book authors and illustrators are two types of the many people who create life in the comic books that we read or collect. These authors and illustrators work really hard for us to be satisfied with the work that they are doing. Some of these authors and illustrators are:
1. Stan Lee
Stan Lee was born with the name Stanley Martin Lieber on December 18, 1922. He is an American writer, creator of comic books, editor, and is the former president and chairman of Marvel Comics. Along with several other co-creators, Stan Lee co-created a lot of famous Marvel Comics characters. Some of the famous marvel superheroes that he co-created have made it to the movie screen like Spider-man, The X-Men, Daredevil, The Fantastic Four, and most recently Iron Man and The Incredible Hulk. Stan Lee led the growth of the Marvel Comics enterprise from a part of a publishing house to a large multimedia corporation.
Stan Lee first started out in the comic book industry as an assistant with the help of his uncle, Robbie Solomon, at Goodman Company with its division that was named Timely Comics. By the late 1960's, Timely Comics would now be called what we all know as Marvel Comics.
Young Stanley Liber's first published work was the text filler Captain America foils the Traitor's Revenge in Captain America No.3 on May 1941. He used the pseudonym Stan Lee which would then lead to his official legal name.
2. Steve Ditko
Steve Ditko was born on November 2, 1927 with a birth name of Stephen Ditko. He is an American comic book artist and a writer with well-known comic books like Spider-man and Doctor Strange.
After graduating from Johnstown High School in 1945, he did military service in a post-war Germany. While in Germany, he produced hand-made comics as letters to be sent and read for his family.
After being discharged, Steve Ditko went off to study at the Cartoonists and Illustrators School (now named School of Visual Arts) in New York City, under Jerry Robinson (inker of Batman and other comic books), and began his professional career in illustrating comic books in 1953. Other areas he specializes in are penciling, inking, and writing the storyline for comic books.
3. Jerry Siegel
Jerome Siegel or Jerry was born on October 17, 1914. He used many pseudonyms like Joe Carter, Jerry Ess, and Herbert S. Fine. He was the co-creator of the largely popular Superman comic books, along with Joe Shuster.
Siegel, as he was a big fan of movies, comic strips, and especially science fiction magazines, became a big fan of series in which case he would join in what we call a fandom. He would correspond with other science fiction fans. In 1929, Siegel had published to what may be the very first science fiction fanzine, Comic Stories, which he used a manual typewriter to produce and then advertised it in the classified section of Science Wonder Stories. He would then publish several other booklets over the next few years.
Sadly, Siegel is no longer with us for he died in 1996 at the age of 81. In 2005, 9 years after his death, he was awarded the Bill Finger Award for excellence in comic book writing.
4. Bob Kane
Bob Kane was born with the name Robert Kahn on October 24, 1915. He was an American comic book artist and creator of the DC comics superhero Batman.
Bob Kane was friends in high school with fellow cartoonist and the future The Spirit creator Will Eisner. He graduated at De Witt Clinton High School and afterwards legally changed Robert Kahn as his name to Bob Kane at the age of 18. He then studied art at Cooper Union before joining the Max Fleischer Studio as a trainee animator in 1934.
He would then do freelancing as he entered in the comics industry two years later in 1936. Bob Kane came up with Batman at the time of Superman's success for the DC comics at that time was scrambling to find more superheroes that would be famous like Superman. Kane died on November 3, 1998, leaving behind his wife, a daughter, and a grandson, and millions of fans all over the world.
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