Tom Sutton

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Thomas F. "Tom" Sutton (also known by his pseudonyms Sean Todd and Dementia ; born April 15, 1937 in North Adams , Massachusetts , † May 1, 2002 in Amesbury , Massachusetts) was an American comic book artist . He is known for his black and white horror comics, most notably Vampirella , at Marvel Comics and Warren Publishing .

Life

Early life

Tom Sutton was born and raised in North Adams, Massachusetts . His father was a plumbing, heating and air conditioning dealer and a mechanic and gunsmith for General Electric and other companies. He had a half-sister from his father's first marriage.

He joined the US Air Force after graduating from high school in 1955 . While at Fort Francis E. Warren near Laramie, Wyoming , he worked on art objects. He was later stationed at Itami Base in Japan and created his first work with FEAF Dragon . His first professional comic book led to long-awaited publication in The Stars and Stripes .

In the Tokyo office of Stars and Stripes he drew the comic book Johnny Craig , the name of which was inspired by the EC artist Johnny Craig.

After completing his military service in 1959, he began working in San Francisco. Six months later, he moved to Jacksonville, Vermont , where his parents were then. In 1960 he began studying at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston , which was financed with a scholarship or the GI Bill - Sutton was unsure in an interview in 2001. During the two and a half years he also designed commercial graphics for a small advertising agency. He then became art director at AVP and animation director for Transradio Productions, which includes the graphic work for the RadioShack catalog.

He married his first wife Beverly in the early 1960s and had two sons with her. They divorced after five years. After the divorce, his wife remarried and he lost contact with his sons. He met one of them again. He lived in Boston's North End during the late 1960s . He married his second wife, Donna, and moved to Newburyport, Massachusetts in 1970 . He later lived in Newburyport with his third wife. This ran a Montessori school for short stature on the first floor of the common house. In the 1990s they moved to Amesbury, Massachusetts .

Warren and Marvel

The first two Sutton comic strips came out that same month. The first was called "The Monster from One Billion BC" and was published by Warren Publishing in a black and white horror comic magazine Eerie # 11 (Sept. 1967) although it was originally commissioned for Famous Monsters of Filmland , which was reprinted four months later. He also illustrated the five-page anthlological western story "The Wild Ones," written by Sol Brodsky, in Marvel's Kid Colt, Outlaw # 137 (Sept. 1967). It was the first of many westerns he was supposed to draw for the company.

Late life

Police found him dead in his Amesbury apartment on May 3, 2002, where he apparently died of a heart attack. The exact time of his death is unknown. In the Social Security Death Index , his death is given for May 1, 2002. An obituary for him was published in Dementia's Dirty Girls # 1 (May 2002) by Eros.

bibliography

Atlas / Seaboard Comics

  • Tales of Evil # 2 (1975)

Charlton Comics

  • Attack # 9-10, 13, 35 (1972-1982)
  • Battlefield Action # 72, 78 (1981-1982)
  • Beyond the Grave # 9, 14 (1983-1984)
  • Billy the Kid # 111, 130 (1975-1979)
  • Charlton Classics # 8 (1981)
  • Creepy Things # 1-6 (1975-1976)
  • E-Man # 1 (1973)
  • Fightin 'Army # 108, 111, 113-114, 117, 126, 128, 137-138, 140, 161 (1973-1982)
  • Fightin 'Marines # 107, 116-117, 119, 134, 141-142, 160, 166 (1972-1982)
  • For Lovers Only # 83 (1976)
  • Ghost Manor # 8-9, 17-19, 23, 25, 27-28, 31, 40, 42-43, 45, 47, 50, 61, 67, 71, 76 (1972-1984)
  • Ghostly Haunts # 33, 37–41, 49, 55, 57 (1973–1978)
  • Ghostly Tales # 100, 105-108, 110-115, 123-124, 127, 130, 135, 138-140, 148, 150, 152, 162-163, 166, 169 (1972-1984)
  • Haunted # 10, 15, 17, 20-27, 29, 31, 35-39, 42, 44-45, 52, 54-58, 61-62, 64, 66-68, 70, 73 (1973-1984)
  • Haunted Love # 1, 3, 5-6, 9-11 (1973-1975)
  • I Love You # 116, 118 (1976)
  • Love Diary # 97, 99 (1976)
  • The Many Ghosts of Dr. Graves # 35, 39, 42, 44-45, 47-50, 52, 54-56, 60-61, 65, 70 (1972-1982)
  • Midnight Tales # 2-10, 15 (1973-1975)
  • Monster Hunters # 2-8, 16-18, 20 (1975-1979)
  • Scary Tales # 2-4, 9, 13, 29, 33, 35-36, 43, 46 (1975-1984)
  • Secret Romance # 37 (1976)
  • Secrets of Young Brides # 4, 6 (1976)
  • Space War # 30, 33 (1978-1979)
  • Space: 1999 # 1 (1975)
  • Teen Confessions # 94-95 (1976)
  • Time for Love # 46 (1976)
  • War # 3, 5, 14, 16 (1975-1979)

DC Comics

Paradox Press

  • The Big Book of Bad (1998)
  • The Big Book of Freaks (1996)
  • The Big Book of Grimm (1999)
  • The Big Book of Hoaxes (1996)
  • The Big Book of Little Criminals (1996)
  • The Big Book of Losers (1997)
  • The Big Book of Martyrs (1997)
  • The Big Book of the '70s (2000)
  • The Big Book of the Unexplained (1997)
  • The Big Book of the Weird Wild West (1998)
  • The Big Book of Thugs (1996)
  • The Big Book of Vice (1999)
  • The Big Book of Weirdos (1995)

First comics

Marvel Comics

Skywald Publications

  • Butch Cassidy # 1 (1971)
  • The Heap # 1 (1971)
  • Nightmare # 3–5, 21 (1971–1974)
  • The 1974 Nightmare Yearbook # 1 (1974)
  • Psycho # 2-6, 22 (1971-1974)
  • The 1974 Psycho Yearbook # 1 (1974)

Warren Publishing

  • Creepy # 17, 22-24, 26-28, 30-33, 35-37, 40, 44-47, 53-54, 59, 61, 64, 144, Annual # 1971, # 1972 (1967-1983)
  • Eerie # 11–12, 17–29, 31–32, 34–36, 38–39, 41, 43–47, 53, 57, Annual # 1972, Yearbook # 1970 (1967–1974)
  • Famous Monsters of Filmland # 48 (1968)
  • Vampirella # 1-5, 7-12, 14, Annual # 1 (1969-1972)
  • Warren Presents # 3 (1979)
  • Warren Presents: Future World Comix (1978)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Thomas F. Sutton at the Social Security Death Index . Retrieved September 20, 2012.
  2. ↑ Tom Sutton | Lambiek Comiclopedia. March 7, 2016, accessed April 6, 2018 .
  3. ↑ WebCite query result. Accessed April 6, 2018 .
  4. ^ The Comics Journal: Interviews. April 29, 2008, accessed April 6, 2018 .
  5. ↑ To Odd Man Out: Tom Sutton | The Comics Journal | Page 3. Retrieved April 6, 2018 (American English).
  6. ↑ To Odd Man Out: Tom Sutton | The Comics Journal | Page 4. Retrieved April 6, 2018 (American English).
  7. ↑ To Odd Man Out: Tom Sutton | The Comics Journal | Page 8. Retrieved April 6, 2018 (American English).
personal data
SURNAME Sutton, Tom
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sutton, Thomas F. (full name); Todd, Sean; Sutton, dementia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American comic book artist
DATE OF BIRTH April 15, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH North Adams, Massachusetts
DATE OF DEATH May 1, 2002
Place of death Amesbury, Massachusetts