Bob Oksner

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Robert S. "Bob" Oksner (born October 14, 1916 in Paterson , New Jersey , † February 18, 2007 in Delray Beach , Florida ) was an American comic artist .

Life and work

Oksner began working as a full-time comic book artist in the early 1940s. He presented his first work as a draftsman at the Timely Comics publishing house in 1942. From 1945 to 1947 he designed the newspaper comic strip Miss Cairo Jones, which Sheldon Mayer, a senior editor at DC Comics , drew attention to him.

Mayer hired Oksner as a member of the DC drawing staff. In his early years at DC, Oksner initially took on various adventure comic strips that revolved around the comic escapades of various celebrities of the time. He drew Adventures of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis , Adventures of Jerry Lewis , Adventures of Bob Hope , The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis , Sgt.Bilko and Pat Boone and Welcome Back, Kotter .

For the King Features Syndicate he designed the comic adaptations of the television comedy show I Love Lucy in the 1950s .

In the 1960s, Oksner took on the drawing jobs for horror and fantasy-themed comic series such as Angel and the Ape and Stanley and His Monster . His most frequent partner on these projects was the author E. Nelson Bridwell . When the demand for humor comics declined in the late 1960s, Oksner became increasingly active as an illustrator of superhero series such as Superman , Supergirl , Wonder Woman , Shazam! , Black Orchid , Lois Lane and - with a tendency to return to the humor subject - Ambush Bug .

As an author, he was also in charge of the Dondi comic strip created by Irwin Hasen from 1965 onwards . Together with Don Weldon he also co-developed the Strip Soozi (1967). In 1986 Oksner finally retired.

Awards

Oksner received the National Cartoonists Society Award in the Comics Department in 1960 and 1961 for his work. In 1970 he received the Shazam Award for best draftsman in the "humor" segment.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Darran Jordan: Green Lantern History: An Unauthorized Guide to the DC Comic Book Series Green Lantern. Lulu.com 2015, ISBN 1-326-13963-0 , p. 45.
personal data
SURNAME Oksner, Bob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Oksner, Robert S.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American comic artist
DATE OF BIRTH October 14, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Paterson , New Jersey
DATE OF DEATH February 18, 2007
Place of death Delray Beach , Florida