Mac Raboy
Emmanuel "Mac" Raboy (born April 19, 1914 in New York ; † December 1967) was an American comic artist. Raboy was best known for his work on the science fiction comic strip Flash Gordon .
Life and work
Raboy began working as a draftsman for the Works Progress Administration , a Roosevelt government-created employment agency, during the Great Depression, in the 1930s, designing billboards for them.
In the 1940s, Raboy began working as a cartoonist. In the further course of the 1940s he designed numerous issues of the Green Lama and Captain Marvel, Jr. series . His design for the title hero of Captain Marvel, Jr., whose unusual hairstyle, a stylized "lard", was of lasting pop cultural importance Encouraged readers to imitate. Among these was the young Elvis Presley , who mimicked the hairstyle of his role model Captain Marvel, Jr. and, since many of his fans in the 1950s mimicked his Elvis hairstyle, made it a mass look.
In 1946, Raboy was hired by the King Features Syndicate as an illustrator of the comic strip about the science fiction hero Flash Gordon, which appeared by Alex Raymond on the Sunday page of countless American daily newspapers, and which Raboy was to oversee until his death in 1967.
Individual evidence
- ↑ The World's Greatest Comic Blogazine . Dial B For Blog. Retrieved July 7, 2010.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Raboy, Mac |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Raboy, Emmanuel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American comic artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 19, 1914 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | new York |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 1967 |