Klaus Nordling

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Klaus Nordling (* 1915 , according to other information May 29, 1910 , in Finland ; † November 19, 1986 in Ridgefield , Connecticut ) was a comic artist and author .

life and work

When Nordling was a child, his parents immigrated to the United States with him. He began his professional career as a draftsman for the satirical magazine Americana in 1939 and in the same year became an employed draftsman in the Eisner & Iger studio founded by Will Eisner and Samuel Iger , where he worked on series such as Shorty Shortcake and Lt. Drake starred, Spark Stevens took over from Bob Kane , and his greatest success was with the Pen Miller detective series . The following year he created The Thin Man for Mystic Comics . In 1942, Nordling took over the satirical crime film Lady Luck from Nick Cardy and led the series, for which he drew over 200 four-page episodes within four years, to its greatest fame. After the war and Eisner's return, Nordling supported him at The Spirit , on whose Sunday pages he had previously worked. After The Spirit ran out in 1952, Nordling worked for Eisner's American Visual Corporation until the 1970s , but apart from making a few educational comics and a brief interlude with MAD magazine in 1959, he was no longer in comics -Business.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Andreas C. Knigge: Comic Lexikon. Ullstein Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin and Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-548-36554-X , p. 344.
  2. ↑ a b c d Klaus Nordling at lambiek.net (English) , accessed on December 1, 2010
  3. ↑ Determined by query on http://ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ on December 1, 2010
  4. ↑ a b c d Andreas C. Knigge: Comic Lexikon . Ullstein Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin and Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-548-36554-X , p. 345.
  5. ^ Klaus Nordling, Artist for Eisner's 'Lady Luck', Dies at Home. In: The Comics Journal. No. 114, February 1987, ISSN  0194-7869 , p. 29.


personal data
SURNAME Nordling, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Comic artist and author
DATE OF BIRTH May 29, 1910 or 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Finland
DATE OF DEATH November 19, 1986
Place of death Ridgefield , Connecticut , United States