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[Electricmastro]

A thread for anyone wanting to identify which artists drew what comic art that was left uncredited, as is what tended to happen in and around the 40s, whether they be covers or comic stories.

[Robb_K]

A thread for anyone wanting to identify which artists drew what comic art that was left uncredited, as is what tended to happen in and around the 40s, whether they be covers or comic stories.

As a "normal" thread, this will get buried quickly, and members who want to contribute to it won't be able to find it.  You'd better send a private message to Mark to have him make this into a "sticky" thread, which will have a bolded title and be placed among the other "stickies" with bolded titles staying above the current threads.

[Electricmastro]

Thanks Robb. Anyway, I suppose I

[The Australian Panther]

For Action comic art, as opposed to funny animal, I can visually identify distinctives in the way artists draw Anatomy. I can't always verbalize what it is that helps me identify an artist, it seems to involve an automatic memory or 'instinctive' function. I can identify many artists instantly, others who are more generic, takes longer. The artists who are most distinctive and identifiable are usually the most creative and original thinkers.
There are also two types of Artists in comics. Those who are illustrators, whose strength is in just telling a story visually and those who are innovators and creators. These are the true 'Comic Strip' or 'Comic Book' Artists who saw the drawn visual narrative as a new medium and devised new approaches to it. So Jack Kirby and Will Eisner fall into this category. Burne Hogarth, [Early Tarzan] genius tho he was, is an illustrator.
And here is a gift for any budding artists who read this, A PDF on Dynamic Figure Drawing by Hogarth.
https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=dWNwLmVkdS5jb3xqdWFuZGF0dXxneDo0NmIxN2MzNGViZjgyMTkx

Great thread. More later. 

[Electricmastro]

Speaking of Kirby, it

[Electricmastro]

Was looking over some Fox art and I think I was able to make a reasonably educated guess of one of the Flame stories as possibly having been drawn by Larry Antonette, the one in question being from The Flame #6 (August, 1941), under the pen name of

[The Australian Panther]

Speaking of Kirby, it

[Electricmastro]

Speaking of Kirby, it

[Electricmastro]

Just noticed a

[Electricmastro]

Possibly drawn by Ken Battefield (A Feature Presentation #5, April 1950):

[narfstar]

Eagle 4 credited at GCD https://www.comics.org/issue/1926/
Feature 5 is also https://www.comics.org/issue/8209/

You can always check www.comics.org to see known art ID. If you believe they are wrong, or have unknown artists you can spot, please index them there

[Electricmastro]

Eagle 4 credited at GCD https://www.comics.org/issue/1926/
Feature 5 is also https://www.comics.org/issue/8209/

You can always check www.comics.org to see known art ID. If you believe they are wrong, or have unknown artists you can spot, please index them there

Yeah, I actually mentioned those observations to them and they evidently agreed that my observations were educated enough to warrant edits.

Some feel say there was an artist named Ramona Patenaude, and that she

[mopee167]

https://www.comics.org/issue/294355/

Nikkey Gnome (signed as Guarnier) in Hollywood Comics #1 (Winter 1944).

This was drawn by was Lucifer Guarnier, born 21 July 1914 and died 29 December 2007. His father, apparently, had a strange sense of humor when he came up with the name. Lu Guarnier started his career at Warner Brothers in the 1930

[Robb_K]

Sorry.  I am on the wrong thread!  Gremlins (or, maybe Nikkey Gnome) have taken me off the thread I intended, and placed me on this one when I was not looking for a second!   

[Electricmastro]

Lightning Comics #v3#1 (June, 1942) shows a signature signed as

[mopee167]

Born in Sac City, Iowa, Bruce Currie was a figure and still-life painter in modernist styles.  He was long-time active in New York state, where he lived in Woodstock with his artist wife, Ethel Magafan, and daughter Jennie.  They plus extended family were regarded as part of the "old guard" of the Colony.  Ethel's twin sister, Jenne, and Jenne's, husband, Eduardo Chavez, also lived there and both were artists.  Years later, the family members living near each other and working together were described by Ray Steiner from childhood memories as being a "clan---a special group of people who shared not only a love of art, but also a love of life and nature."  Their work are classic examples of Mid-Century Modernism in American art of the 20th century.

[mopee167]

The Magafan & Currie Clan

https://www.arttimesjournal.com/art/reviews/Jul_Aug_06_online_Raymond_J_Steiner/Magafan_Currie_Clan_waam.htm

[Electricmastro]

Born in Sac City, Iowa, Bruce Currie was a figure and still-life painter in modernist styles.  He was long-time active in New York state, where he lived in Woodstock with his artist wife, Ethel Magafan, and daughter Jennie.  They plus extended family were regarded as part of the "old guard" of the Colony.  Ethel's twin sister, Jenne, and Jenne's, husband, Eduardo Chavez, also lived there and both were artists.  Years later, the family members living near each other and working together were described by Ray Steiner from childhood memories as being a "clan---a special group of people who shared not only a love of art, but also a love of life and nature."  Their work are classic examples of Mid-Century Modernism in American art of the 20th century.

[mopee167]

Yes, she even has a Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethel_Magafan

[mopee167]

There's another blog post about Bruce Currie here:

https://rjsteiner.wordpress.com/2011/03/12/passing-of-another-woodstock-legend/#comments

[Electricmastro]

There's another blog post about Bruce Currie here:

https://rjsteiner.wordpress.com/2011/03/12/passing-of-another-woodstock-legend/#comments

Thanks! Also, at GCD, it was pointed out to me that there was a Bruce Currie credit referenced in a humor cartoon mag from 1940: https://www.comics.org/issue/1525710/

And that it

[mopee167]

For what

[Electricmastro]

Perhaps not necessarily a story whose art not as many people are curious as to who drew it in the first place, though for some reason it has still made me wonder who exactly the

[Electricmastro]

Somewhat eligible signature from Boy Loves Girl #53 (August, 1955), which I think reads something like

[crashryan]

Seems to me to be "B--de(r)myer". Pretty sure of the "myer" part. Wish I had a printed copy to put under the Atomic VizoSpaceagraph for analysis. I couldn't come up with comics artist names that fit the template.