[WileyJ]

can anyone give me some info on archie comics artist george frese?? lambiek has one small paragraph and comic book data base only has one page on him.he was right up there with decarlo and lucey in my opinion.im just curious if he left comics early or what?

[josemas]

According to this posting by Harry Lucey's daughter, George Frese died at a very young age.

http://www.archiefans.com/all-about-archie/harry-lucey-tidbits/

I believe we have some examples of his art in issues of Ginger and Suzie in the MLJ section.

Best

Joe

[mopee167]

In case anyone's interested, here's some information on George Frese.

George Frese was a key artist and writer for Archie Comics in the first years of the 1950s.

Who's Who has a year of death as 1956. (I'm guessing that would make him 36 or 37.)
He did a lot of the artwork, including covers, on the earliest issues of Betty and Veronica,
Jughead, and Reggie include the first issues of each (c1950).

Per Joe Edwards, from Alter Ego #83, Jan 2009:
George Frese worked for Grumman Aircraft. George was on their art staff, and he used to send in
artwork to Archie. One day he came up, and Harry Shorten took a look at his work. He looked at
me, asked me what I thought.

[narfstar]

Thanks for the info

[drake10]

Here's some research I did on George Frese's biographical details:

https://comicshistoryhub.blogspot.com/2022/03/george-frese-archies-forgotten-artist.html