Frank Robbins

Frank Robbins ( born September 9, 1917 in Boston, Massachusetts, † November 28, 1994 in San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico ) was an American painter, and comic book writer and signatory.

Life

Robbins was the first time in 1926 when he - at the age of nine years - won a drawing competition, which was doped with an art scholarship. Already as a teenager he started the National Academy of Design in New York to visit, what he, funded by a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation, which he received in 1932. In the 1930s he worked - through the Great Depression forced to cancel his studies - as an illustrator for various advertising agencies. In the early 1930s he also worked as an interior decorator, so he designed, among other mural for the NBC Building in Radio City. In 1935, he designed advertisements for RKO Pictures, before he started in the 1940s to draw comic strips for American newspapers, an activity which he continued until the late 1970s.

From Robbins' 1945 closed marriage two children were born. In the 1950s, he began on a large scale to create paintings that were sold in galleries and even in museums.

Since the 1960s, Robbins worked as a comic book writer and illustrator, took from the operation in the comic book industry, however, in the late 1970s - especially after his move to Mexico 1977 - back distance, to devote himself entirely to painting can.

Robbins as a painter

The outstanding feature of the painter Robbins is the dry brush stroke, which is based on his work. His paintings are mostly in dark - held tones and are characterized by curved shapes - predominantly black.

Robbins works as a painter can be found today primarily in the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City.

Robbins as a comic artist

Robbins was the most important work published in American newspapers comic strip "Johnny Hazard", which he created in 1944 and wrote to his attitude in 1977 and drew.

As a comic book writer Robbins worked in the 1960s and 1970s for DC Comics on such well-known series such as Batman, Detective Comics, The Flash, House of Mystery, House of Secrets, Unknown Soldier.

The mid- 1970s he moved to Marvel Comics, where he worked on series such as Captain America, Fear and Ghost Rider. The most famous created by Robbins cartoon character was there probably the Batman adversary Man-Bat, the Robbins 400 of 1970 introduced together with the artist Neal Adams in the comic book Detective Comics # in the Batman series, and was so popular that he even the hero of a own comic series - which was also written by Robbins - advanced.

He also wrote for other publishers on projects like Human Fly, Invaders, The Shadow, Weird War Tales and Power Man. In addition, he oversaw the comic adaptation of the TV series The Man from Atlantis.