John Celardo

John Celardo (* December 27, 1918 in Staten Iceland, New York, † January 6, 2012 ) was an American comic book artist.

Life and work

Celardo attended high school in Port Richmond. More training stations were the New York School of Industrial Arts, the Federal Arts School and the New York School of Visual Arts. His first professional drawings made ​​Celardo to in 1937. After that, he was Staff artist in the studio by Will Eisner and Jerry Iger. For the publisher Quality was involved in various comic book series and temporarily signed with the pseudonym John C. Lardo. From the year 1940 drew Celardo also for the publisher Fiction House. During World War II he served in the United States Army and was promoted to Captain. After the war Celardo initially continued his work for Fiction House, but was later self-employed. In 1953 he took over from Bob Lubbers Tarzan and continued the series continued until the year 1967. 1967 until its setting in the year 1969, he recorded the previously held by Joe Kubert comic book series Green Berets. In 1973 Celardo editor for Comics at King Features Syndicate and presented a drawing. Only in the early 1980s he began again to draw professionally, when he used the newspaper strip Buz Sawyer and continued up to the end of the same decade.

Together with his wife Julia, with whom he had been married over 65 years, Celardo had a daughter and a son.