Reed Crandall (February 22, 1917 – September 13, 1982) was an American illustrator and penciller of comic books and magazines. Events 1495 - King Charles VIII of France enters Naples to claim the city's throne Year 1917 ( MCMXVII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Events 509 BC - The Temple of Jupiter on Rome 's Capitoline Hill is dedicated on the ides of September Year 1982 ( MCMLXXXII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link displays the 1982 Gregorian calendar) The United States of America —commonly referred to as the For the vector -based drawing program by Adobe Systems, see Adobe Illustrator. A penciller (or penciler) is one of a number of types of Artists working within the Comic book industry A comic book (often shortened to simply comic and sometimes called a comic paper or comic magazine) is a Magazine or Book of narrative Magazines, periodicals or serials are Publications generally published on a regular schedule containing a variety of articles, generally He was best known for the Quality Comics character Blackhawk and for stories in the critically acclaimed EC Comics of the 1950s. Quality Comics was an American comic book Publishing company that operated from 1939 to 1956 and was an influential creative force in what historians and fans call Blackhawk, a long-running Comic book series was also a Film serial, a radio series and a Novel. Entertaining Comics, more commonly known as EC Comics, was an American Publisher of Comic books specializing in Crime fiction,
Biography
Reed Crandall was born in Winslow, Indiana. Winslow is a town in Patoka Township, Pike County, Indiana, United States. He graduated from Newton High School, Newton, Kansas in 1935 and enrolled in the Cleveland School of Art, graduating in 1939. Newton is a City in and the County seat of Harvey County, Kansas, United States. The Cleveland Institute of Art is a private college of art and design located in University Circle, Cleveland Ohio. He worked on comic books from 1939 until 1973 contributing to several classic titles, including Flash Gordon, Tales from the Crypt, Blackhawk, Gunsmoke, Ripley's Believe it or Not and Mad Magazine. Flash Gordon is the hero of a Science fiction adventure Comic strip originally drawn by Alex Raymond, which was first published on January 7, Blackhawk, a long-running Comic book series was also a Film serial, a radio series and a Novel. Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston Ripley's Believe It or Not! is a franchise founded by Robert Ripley, which deals in bizarre events and items so Mad is a monthly American Humor Magazine founded by editor Harvey Kurtzman and publisher William Gaines in 1952
In comic books, he started out at Quality Comics, when he worked on The Ray, Doll Man, and most famously, Blackhawk. Quality Comics was an American comic book Publishing company that operated from 1939 to 1956 and was an influential creative force in what historians and fans call The Ray is the name of three Fictional characters, all Superheroes in the DC Comics universe. Doll Man is a fictional Superhero from the Golden Age of Comics, originally published by Quality Comics and currently part of the DC Comics Next, for EC Comics, Crandall provided art for Tales from the Crypt, Piracy. Entertaining Comics, more commonly known as EC Comics, was an American Publisher of Comic books specializing in Crime fiction, Piracy is Robbery committed at sea or sometimes on shore without a commission from a sovereign Nation (as distinct from Privateering Two Fisted Tales. Two-Fisted Tales was a bi-monthly anthology war comic published by EC Comics in the early 1950s and many other titles.
In the 1960s and 1970s, Crandall drew many horror stories for Warren Publishing's magazines Creepy and Eerie. Warren Publishing was an American Magazine company founded by James Warren, who published his first magazines in 1957 and continued in the business for creep Creepy was an American horror - Comics Magazine launched by Warren Publishing in 1964. Eerie was an American magazine of horror comics introduced in 1966 by Warren Publishing.
By 1974, Crandall's health and talent had degenerated due to alcoholism and he was forced to work as a night watchman and janitor for a Pizza Hut restaurant. After suffering a stroke, he spent his remaining life in nursing home and died of a heart attack. Myocardial infarction ( MI or AMI for acute myocardial infarction) also known as a heart attack, occurs when the blood supply
Crandall is referenced in Michael Chabon's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, in which the Joe Kavalier refers to Crandall as the "top" comic-book artist of his era. Michael Chabon (pron SHAY-bon (born May 24 1963 is an American author and "one of the most celebrated writers of his generation" according to the The Virginia The Pulitzer Prize, ˈpʊlɨtsɚ PULL-it-sər is an American award regarded as the highest national honor in Newspaper journalism, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay is a 2000 Novel by American author Michael Chabon that won the Pulitzer Prize
Family
Reed Crandall had a few sons and daughters, one of which named Reed "Spike" Crandall (after his father) owned a small metal-working shop until his death in 2002 (possibly 2001). Spike had a daughter and three grandchildren at the time of his death, as well as several nieces and nephews.
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