Harry Lampert

Harry Lampert ( born November 3, 1916 in New York City; † November 13, 2004 in Boca Raton, Florida) was an American cartoonist and author.

Life

He started the cartoon drawing at age 16 and worked for Max Fleischer, by painting and helped to produce characters like Betty Boop, Popeye and Koko the Clown. He began to draw and comic books is known in the art as artistic co-author of the DC Comics superhero "The Flash".

The Flash

Texted by Gardner Fox, the hero " Flash Comics " appeared for the first time in the No. 1 magazine in 1940. After only five stories Lampert adopted by the figure in order to pursue his penchant for humorous work. After 'The Flash' he drew caricatures for Time Magazine, the New York Times, Esquire, and the "Saturday Evening Post ".

He taught at the New York School of Visual Arts and founded the Lampert Agency, an advertising company, the award-winning ads for clients such as Olympic Airways, Seagram and the U.S. Virgin Islands designed.

After his retirement in 1976, Lampert wrote many textbooks for Bridge. His book " The Fun Way to Serious Bridge" has been called "the bible " of this game. For years he taught courses and developed the " cruise ship circuit" teaching method for bridge players. The mid-1990s, he appeared on comic book fairs, where he sold drawings and autographs and talked about his famous comic book.

Lampert died on 13 November 2004 of a cerebral hemorrhage.

• Cartoonist
• Author
• Literature ( 20th century)
• Literature ( English )
• Americans
• Born 1916
• Died in 2004
• Man