Albert "Al" B. Feldstein (born October 24, 1925) is an American painter of Western wildlife and an influential author-editor who wrote, drew and edited for EC Comics, followed by a lengthy career as the editor of Mad. Events 69 - Second Battle of Bedriacum, forces under Antonius Primus the commander of the Danube armies loyal to Vespasian, defeat Year 1925 ( MCMXXV) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Sculpture of the United States Visual arts of the United States refers to the history of Painting and Visual art in the United States. Entertaining Comics, more commonly known as EC Comics, was an American Publisher of Comic books specializing in Crime fiction, Mad is a monthly American Humor Magazine founded by editor Harvey Kurtzman and publisher William Gaines in 1952 He was inducted into the Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame in 2003. The Will Eisner Comic Industry Award is a prize given for creative achievement in American Comic books It is named in honor of the pioneering writer and artist Will Eisner
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Biography
Early life and career
Al Feldstein was born on October 24, 1925 in Brooklyn, New York, and grew up in Flatbush on East 31st Street between Avenue L and Avenue M. Events 69 - Second Battle of Bedriacum, forces under Antonius Primus the commander of the Danube armies loyal to Vespasian, defeat Year 1925 ( MCMXXV) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Brooklyn (named after the Dutch town Breukelen) is one of the five boroughs of New York City. New York ( is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous Flatbush is a community of the Borough of Brooklyn, a part of New York City, consisting of several neighborhoods He attended P. S. 191, and when he was eight years old, he won a third-place medal in the annual John Wanamaker art competition. John Nelson Wanamaker ( July 11, 1838 – December 12, 1922) was a United States merchant religious leader civic and political figure After winning an award in the 1939 New York World's Fair poster contest, he decided on a career in the art field and studied at the High School of Music and Art in upper Manhattan. The 1939-40 New York World's Fair, Flushing Meadows-Corona Park (also the location of the 1964-1965 New York World's Fair) was one of the largest Fiorello H LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts, also officially known as "H Upper Manhattan denotes the more northerly region of the New York City Borough of Manhattan. When he was 15 years old, he was hired by Jerry Iger to work in the Eisner & Iger shop, an art service for the comic book industry. Samuel Maxwell "Jerry" Iger ( August 22, 1903 &ndash September 5, 1990) is an American Cartoonist. At Eisner & Iger, he earned three dollars a week running errands, inking balloon lines, ruling panel borders and erasing pages. When he began inking backgrounds, his salary jumped to five dollars a week.
With his graduation, he received a scholarship to the Art Students League. The Art Students League of New York is an Art school located on West 57th Street in New York City. He began a rigorous schedule of studying at Brooklyn College during the day, followed by night classes at the Art Students League. Brooklyn College is a senior college of the City University of New York, located in Brooklyn New York. At the age of 17, he enlisted in the Air Force in July, 1943, as an aviation cadet and began his basic training in Blytheville, Arkansas. Blytheville is a city in and one of the two County seats of Mississippi County, Arkansas, United States. His cadet class was held in reserve, and he was assigned to Special Services, creating signs and service club murals, decorating planes and flight jackets, drawing comic strips for field newspapers and painting squadron insignias for orderly rooms.
After his discharge, Feldstein freelanced art for comic books, including Fox Comics.
EC Comics
Arriving in 1948 at Bill Gaines' Entertaining Comics, Feldstein began as an artist but soon combined art with writing and became the editor on most of the EC titles. William Maxwell Gaines ( March 1, 1922 &ndash June 3, 1992) (more frequently referred to as Bill Gaines) was the publisher and co-editor Although he originally wrote and illustrated approximately one story per comic, in addition to doing many covers, Feldstein eventually focused on editing and writing, reserving his artwork primarily for covers. From late 1950 through 1953, Feldstein edited and wrote stories for seven EC titles.
While developing a stable of contributing writers that included Otto Binder, Jack Oleck, Carl Wessler and Daniel Keyes, he published the first work of Harlan Ellison. Otto Oscar Binder (1911 - 1974 was a Writer of American Science fiction, non-fiction UFO, and Comic books Biography Daniel F Keyes (born August 9, 1927 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York) is an American Author best known Harlan Jay Ellison (born May 27, 1934) is a prolific American Writer of Short stories, Novellas, Teleplays EC employed the comics industry's finest artists and published promotional copy to make readers aware of their staff. Feldstein encouraged the EC illustrators to maintain their personal art styles, and this emphasis on individuality gave the EC line a unique appearance. Distinctive front cover designs framing those recognizable art styles made Feldstein's titles easy to spot on crowded newsstands. A newsagent ( British English) newsagency ( Australian English) or newsstand ( American English) is often a small business that sells
Those comic books, known as EC's New Trend group, included Weird Science, Weird Fantasy, Tales from the Crypt, The Haunt of Fear, The Vault of Horror, Piracy, Panic, Crime SuspenStories and Shock SuspenStories. Weird Science was a science fiction anthology comic that was part of the EC Comics line in the early 1950s Weird Fantasy was a science fiction anthology comic that was part of the EC Comics line in the early 1950s The Haunt of Fear, Tales from the Crypt and The Vault of Horror are three bi-monthly horror comic anthology series Piracy is an EC Comics title published in the early 1950s The bi-monthly Comic book, published by Bill Gaines and edited by Al Feldstein Panic was part of the EC Comics line during the early 1950s The bi-monthly humor comic published by Bill Gaines as a companion to Harvey Kurtzman 's Crime SuspenStories was a bi-monthly anthology crime comic published by EC Comics in the early 1950s Shock SuspenStories was part of the EC Comics line in the early 1950s After the New Trend titles folded in 1955, Feldstein edited EC's short-lived New Direction and Picto-Fiction titles.
Mad
Feldstein then moved to Mad, succeeding Harvey Kurtzman in 1956, spending the next 28 years at the helm of what became one of the nation's leading and most venerable satirical magazines. Harvey Kurtzman ( October 3, 1924, Brooklyn New York – February 21, 1993) was a U Circulation more than quadrupled during Feldstein's tenure, peaking at 2,132,655 in 1974, although it declined to a third of that figure by the end of his time as editor.
Many new cartoonists and writers surfaced during the early years of Feldstein's editorship. This process leveled off in the 1960s as the magazine came to rely on a steady group of contributors. Feldstein's first issue as editor (#29) was also the first issue to display the twisted work of cartoonist Don Martin. Donald "Don" Martin ( May 18 1931 &ndash January 6 2000) was an American Cartoon artist whose best-known work A few months later, he hired Mort Drucker, who quickly established himself as their premier caricaturist. Mortimer "Mort" Drucker (born on March 29, 1929) is a Cartoonist born in Brooklyn New York. By 1961, with the introduction of Antonio Prohias and Dave Berg, he had fully established the format that kept the magazine a commercial success for decades. Dave Berg ( Brooklyn, June 12, 1920 &ndash May 17, 2002) was an American Cartoonist, most noted for his work in
Painting
After he retired from Mad in 1984, Feldstein began painting again.
He left Connecticut and relocated in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, where he spent three years painting the Teton Range and its wildlife. Connecticut ( is a state located in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. Jackson is a Town located in the Jackson Hole Valley of Teton County, Wyoming, United States. The Teton Range is a Mountain range of the Rocky Mountains in North America. Two of his paintings from that period placed in the Top 100 of Arts for the Parks, a competition created in 1986 by the National Park Academy of the Arts.
Feldstein moved in 1992 to Paradise Valley, Montana, near Livingston, finding new approaches to depict the Western way of life in his acrylic paintings. Montana ( is a state in the Western United States. One-third of the state in the western part contains numerous mountain ranges (approximately 77 named of the northern Livingston is a city in and the County seat of Park County, Montana, United States. Acrylic paint is fast-drying Paint containing pigment suspended in an acrylic polymer Emulsion. In 1999, he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Arts degree by Rocky Mountain College in Billings, Montana, and that year again ranked in the Top 100 of the Arts for the Parks' Competition. Rocky Mountain College (informal Rocky or RMC) located in Billings, Montana, is a private comprehensive College offering more Billings is the largest city in the US state of Montana, located in the south-central portion of the state In 2000, he was invited to give the Commencement Address to the new century's first graduating class at Rocky Mountain College.
As of 2007, he is represented by numerous Northwest galleries, and he continues to create his Western, wildlife and landscape paintings at his 270 acre (1. 1 km²) ranch south of Livingston and north of Yellowstone National Park.
References
- Official site
- 1999 Arts for the Parks Top 100
- Jenn Dlugos 2003 interview with Al Feldstein
- Who's Who of American Comic Books: 1928-1999
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