Lee Falk
Lee Falk (actually: Leon Harrison Gross ; born April 28, 1911 in St. Louis , Missouri , † March 13, 1999 in New York City , New York ) was an American comic book author and illustrator. He gained particular fame through the comics Phantom and Mandrake the Magician .
life and work
Falk, who wrote school magazines in high school and college , found a job as a copywriter for an advertising agency in St. Louis after graduating from the University of Illinois . His work brought him together with Phil Davis , with whom he created the comic strip Mandrake the Magician in 1934 . The success of Mandrake the Magician , Falk's first comic book work, prompted him to start the comic series Phantom together with the illustrator Ray Moore in 1936 , which was also distributed by the King Features Syndicate .
From the 1960s onwards, Falk also worked as a novelist, writing several phantom novels. He had been a playwright before. In 1986, Falk, who was the father of three children, received the Silver T-Square from the National Cartoonists Society. He worked as a comic writer until he was nine years old.
literature
- Marcel Feige : The little comic dictionary . Schwarzkopf and Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-89602-544-9 , pp. 266-267.
- Franco Fossati: The large illustrated Ehapa comic lexicon . Ehapa Verlag, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-7704-0865-9 , p. 94.
- Andreas C. Knigge : Comic Lexicon . Ullstein Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin and Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-548-36554-X , pp. 189-190.
Web links
- Lee Falk in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Literature by and about Lee Falk in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Lee Falk on lfb.it (Italian) , accessed on February 18, 2011
- ↑ a b c d e Lee Falk on lambiek.net (English) , accessed on February 18, 2011
- ↑ Marcel Feige: The little comic dictionary . Schwarzkopf and Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-89602-544-9 , p. 267
- ↑ Overview of the awards presented by the National Cartoonists Society and their winners , accessed on February 1, 2016
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Falk, Lee |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gross, Leon Harrison (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American comic book writer and illustrator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 28, 1911 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | St. Louis , Missouri |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 13, 1999 |
| Place of death | New York City , New York |