Murphy Anderson
Murphy Anderson (born July 9, 1926 in Asheville , North Carolina , † October 23, 2015 ) was an American comic artist .
Life
Murphy Anderson began his comic strip artist (pencil and ink drawings) career in the 1940s. He has created ongoing series such as Batman , Adam Strange , The Atom , Superman , Action Comics , Hawkman , Batgirl , Zatanna and The Specter, as well as comic strips that have appeared in daily drawings such as Buck Rogers . Anderson mostly worked as an ink draftsman, who reworked the pencil drawings obtained from another artist.
Anderson's greatest artistic success is the “modern design” of the superhero The Flash, which he played a key role in in the late 1950s . Together with the pencil draftsman Carmine Infantino , Anderson gave the figure of the "fastest man in the world" developed during the Second World War a completely new costume, which within a short time became an integral part of American pop culture . While the “old Flash” wore a red sweater and a winged helmet modeled on the ancient god Hermes , Anderson and Infantino drew the “modern Flash” a scarlet body suit with a yellow lightning bolt emblem on the body. Practically all incarnations of the "red lightning" wear this costume to this day. In addition to comics, Anderson's design has also found its way into films, cartoons and various toy adaptations of the character.
Apart from Infantino, the draftsman Curt Swan Anderson was the most frequent artistic partner. Due to the interaction between the two, which many consider to be perfect, the "Creative Team Swan" and Anderson were also referred to as Swanderson in the 1970s, when they designed a large part of the Superman comics visually .
Most recently, Anderson managed the company "Murphy Anderson Visual Concepts", which carries out commissioned work in the areas of color separation, lettering for magazines, illustrated books, comic books and the like. He was 89 years old.
Awards
Over the decades, Anderson has received numerous awards for his work. In 1962 he received the Alley Award in the category “Best Ink Draftsman”, in 1963 the same price as the most popular draftsman in the Justice League of America series , followed by Alleys in 1964 for the best ink drawings and for the best cover picture of a comic book. He received the latter together with the pencil draftsman Carmine Infantino for the design of the cover for Detective Comics # 329.
In 1988, Anderson was inducted into the Jack Kirby Hall of Fame .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lan Pitts: Legendary Artist Murphy Anderson Passes Away. In: comicbook.com , October 23, 2015, accessed October 24, 2015.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Anderson, Murphy |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American comic artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 9, 1926 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Asheville , North Carolina , United States |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 23, 2015 |