Stan Drake

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Stanley Allen Drake (born November 9, 1921 in Brooklyn , New York City , † March 10, 1997 in Norwalk , Connecticut ) was an American comic book artist and illustrator .

life and work

Drake, who worked as an illustrator before and during his studies, attended the Art Students League from 1939 . Drake joined the Army in 1941, but opened his own studio with Bob Lubbers and John Celardo after the war in 1946 . As in 1953, the King Features Syndicate after a comic book in the field soap opera was looking for, was created in collaboration with comic book writer Elliot Caplin the daily comic strip The Heart of Juliet Jones , which he held until 1989 and then to Frank Bolle handed. Five of the stories about the romantic and dramatic affairs of the sisters Juliet and Eve have been published by Walter Lehning Verlag under the title Das Herz der Julia Köster . From the beginning of the 1980s, Drake drew the album series Kelly Green for the French publisher Dargaud , which was written by Leonard Starr and some of the albums have been published in German by Carlsen Verlag . From 1984 until his death in 1997 Drake drew the newspaper comic Blondie .

In the car accident on September 6, 1956 in which Alex Raymond was killed (Alex Raymond was behind the wheel), Stan Drake was also in the car.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Andreas C. Knigge: Comic-Lexikon , Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin and Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-548-36554-X , p. 77.
  2. ↑ a b c d e Stan Drake on lambiek.net (English) , accessed on September 7, 2012
  3. ↑ Biography of Stan Drake on drake.org (English) ( Memento of the original on 28 August 2005 at the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link is automatically inserted and not yet tested. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed September 7, 2012 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.drake.org
  4. ↑ Douglas Martin: Elliot A. Caplin, 86, Writer Who Devised Comic Strip Plots at nytimes.com , accessed September 7, 2012
  5. ↑ a b Stan Drake on comicguide.de , accessed on August 24, 2020

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personal data
SURNAME Drake, Stan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Drake, Stanley Allen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American comic book artist and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH November 9, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Brooklyn , New York City
DATE OF DEATH March 10, 1997
Place of death Norwalk , Connecticut