John Celardo

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John Celardo (born December 27, 1918 in Staten Island , New York , † January 6, 2012 there ) was an American comic artist .

life and work

Celardo visited the High School in Port Richmond . Further training stations were the New York School of Industrial Arts, the Federal Arts School and the New York School of Visual Arts. Celardo made his first professional drawings in 1937. Then he was employed as a draftsman in the studio of Will Eisner and Jerry Iger . For the publishing house Quality was involved in various comic series and temporarily signed with the pseudonym John C. Lardo . From 1940 Celardo also drew for the publisher Fiction House. During World War II he served in the United States Army and was promoted to captain . After the war, Celardo initially continued his work for Fiction House, but then worked as a freelancer. In 1953, he took over Tarzan from Bob Lubbers and continued the series until 1967. From 1967 until they were discontinued in 1969, he drew the Green Berets comic series, which had been held by Joe Kubert until then . In 1973, Celardo became the editor of comics for the King Features Syndicate and stopped drawing. It was not until the beginning of the 1980s that he began to draw professionally again, taking over the newspaper strip Buz Sawyer and continuing it until the end of the same decade.

Celardo had a daughter and a son with his wife Julia, with whom he was married for over 65 years.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Andreas C. Knigge: Comic Lexikon . Ullstein Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin and Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-548-36554-X , p. 132.
  2. ↑ a b c d e John Celardo on lambiek.net (English) , accessed on March 22, 2012
  3. ^ A b c d e John Celardo, 93 on Staten Island Advance , accessed March 22, 2012
  4. ↑ a b John Celardo on lfb.it (Italian) , accessed on March 22, 2012
  5. ↑ a b c d e Andreas C. Knigge: Comic Lexikon . Ullstein Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin and Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-548-36554-X , p. 133.
personal data
SURNAME Celardo, John
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lardo, John C. (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American comic artist
DATE OF BIRTH December 27, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Staten Island , New York
DATE OF DEATH January 6, 2012
Place of death Staten Island , New York