Don Newton

Donald "Don" L. Newton ( born November 12, 1934 in St. Charles, Virginia; † August 19, 1984 in Phoenix, Arizona) was an American comic book artist.

Life and work

Newton spent his first four years of life in a mining town in Virginia. After an asthmatic disease in the boy was found, moved Newton's family in his fourth year on to Arizona.

The mid-1960s came Newton about his work as a drawing teacher at Mountain View Elementary School in Phoenix, contact the Publisher Gordon Love, which printed a drawing of Newton in science fiction journal The Golden Age # 3. In 1968 Newton eventually worked as an illustrator for the company SFCA, which had specialized in the publication of sci-fi journals and for which he remained active until 1973. During this period he created especially Cover for science fiction and comic fanzines, as well as the layout for the fanzine published in The Savage Earth series. This work gradually made the responsible of the larger American comic publishers carefully the Newton could come first commissioned work in the early 1970s.

In the course of the following decade succeeded Newton to establish itself gradually as a professional cartoonist. In 1978, he became so widely recognized in his " second job " that he was able to quit his real job as a teacher of drawing in to henceforth live alone from his work as a cartoonist.

Publishers for whom he worked were primarily Charlton Comics, Marvel Comics and DC Comics. While he worked for Charlton in the series The Phantom (1975-1076), Newton produced for Marvel Comics - which he left a few times and then return for a short time - first cover for your romance and horror comics and guest drawings for series such as Giant Size Defenders, Avengers, Savage Sword of Conan, Ghost Rider or the black and white magazine Unknown Worlds of Science Fiction Annual # 1

For DC Newton was the first time in 1977 working on mediation by Neal Adams, who gave him the draftsman job for Aquaman story in DC Special # 28. Until 1980, followed by other Aquaman stories that later work on the series Adventure Comics, New Gods, Shazam!, Green Lantern, World's Finest, The Brave and the Bold, Batman and Detective Comics, and for his concept of David Michelinie new feature Star Hunters the first Super - Stars # 16 from October 1977 appeared in DC, in addition joined. The most successful case was Newton's work on the Batman figure - drawing one of the earliest Batman illustrators ever guided by Dick Sprang - in stately seventy-nine stories about the "Midnight Detective " reflected.

Newton died in 1984 at the Mesa Hospital in Phoenix when he suffered a heart attack as a result of cancer in the neck area, which made him fall into a coma from which he never awoke after several days of unconsciousness. His last published work appeared in 1985 posthumously inducted into the comic book Infinity Inc # 13

Particularly frequent artistic partner Newton were the authors E. Nelson Bridwell, Gerry Conway, and Len Wein and the Tuscher Alfredo Alcala, Joe Rubinstein and Dan Adkins.

• Cartoonist
• Americans
• Born in 1934
• Died in 1984
• Man