Klaus Nordling

Klaus Nordling ( born 1915, according to other data May 29, 1910 in Finland, † November 19, 1986 in Ridgefield, Connecticut ) was a cartoonist and author.

Life and work

As Nordling was a child, his parents emigrated with him to the United States. He began his career as an illustrator for the satirical magazine Americana in 1939 and in the same year in the employee signatory founded by Will Eisner and Iger Studio Eisner & Iger Samuel, where he. Among others such series as Shorty Shortcake and Lt. Drake participated, took Spark Stevens by Bob Kane and achieved his greatest success with the detective series Pen Miller. The following year he created for Mystic Comics The Thin Man. In 1942, Nordling took over the satirical crime TripAdvisor Lady Luck by Nick Cardy and led the series, for which he drew within four years, over 200 four-sided episodes to their greatest notoriety. After the war and the return of Eisner Nordling supported him in The Spirit, on the Sunday pages he had previously worked. Following the end of The Spirit in 1952 Nordling worked until the 1970s for Eisner American Visual Corporation, but was, apart from making some Educational Comics and from a brief interlude at the magazine MAD in 1959, no longer in the comic industry operates.