Win Mortimer
James Winslow "Win" Mortimer ( born May 1, 1919 in Hamilton, Ontario; † 11 January 1998) was a Canadian comic book artist.
Life and work
Mortimer was trained by his father, a lithographer, and at the Art Students League of New York, a professional cartoonist and illustrator. During the Second World War Mortimer was briefly in the Canadian Army, from which he was discharged in 1943. Then he designed advertising posters.
1945 Mortimer began to work for the U.S. publisher DC Comics, for whom he first designed especially the covers of various superhero comics. The earliest history, Mortimer can be definitely assigned as a draftsman, was authored by Don Cameron Story "The Batman Goes Broke ," which appeared in November 1945 in Detective Comics # 105. In 1949, Mortimer by Wayne Boring the job of the draftsman of the Superman comic strip, which appeared at this time in many American newspapers, and he seven years, supervised until 1956. Subsequently, he developed his own adventure comic strip David Crane, who was marketed by Prentice- Hall Syndicate, and on which he worked for five years. After that, he recorded seven years the Strip Larry Brannon, which was published from 1961 to 1968 in the Toronto Star.
1968 Mortimer returned back to DC Comics, where he was employed in the following years as a draftsman in numerous series of different genres. So he drew for the humor titles Stanley and His Monster, Scooter and Fat Albert and the superhero series or features - Legion of Super-Heroes and Supergirl. In the 1970s, Mortimer began to work outside the DC as a freelance illustrator for other publishers. For Marvel Comics he drew the fifty-seven editions reach Spiderman Spidey Super Stories series, which was published from October 1974 to March 1982 and which was the comic adaptation of the former Spiderman television series. For the publisher Golden Key took Mortimer comic series like Boris Karloff Tales of Mystery and The Twilight Zone.
1983 Mortimer left the comic industry, we would just make Werbedesgins and commercial art for Neal Adams studio Continuity Associates. Mortimer's last comic work for DC were the drawings written for four-part, by John Byrne miniseries World of Metropolis to the November 1988 published by DC Comics in August. His last work at all were the layouts for the book published in Triad Comics book The Honeymooners # 11 dated June 1989.
2006 Mortimer was added posthumously inducted into the Joe Shuster Canadian Comic Book Creator Hall of Fame, a kind of pantheon of outstanding Canadian comic book artist.
- Cartoonist
- Canadian
- Born in 1919
- Died in 1998
- Man