Murphy Anderson

Murphy Anderson ( born 1926 ) is an American comic book artist.

Life and work

Anderson began his career as a comic artist (pencil and ink drawings ) already in the 1940s. Since then he has continued series like Batman, Adam Strange, The Atom, Superman, Action Comics, Hawkman, Batgirl, Zatanna and The Spectre, as well as published in daily drawings comic strips as Buck Rogers designed. Here, Anderson acted mostly as a technical pen, the post-processed by another artist concerned pencil drawings.

As Anderson's greatest artistic success true of him in the late 1950s, launching the "modern design " of the superhero The Flash. Together with the technical pen Carmine Infantino missed Anderson developed during the second world war figure of the " fastest man in the world " a completely new costume that was an integral part of American pop culture in a short time. While the "old Flash" a red sweater and a winged helmet modeled after the ancient god Hermes wore Infantino Anderson and recorded the "modern Flash" scharlachtrochten a body suit with a yellow lightning bolt emblem on the body. This costume still carry virtually all incarnations of the "Red Lightning". Except in Comics Anderson's design has found its way into films, animated series and various Spielzegadaptionen the figure.

Apart from the Infantino artist Curt Swan Anderson was the most common artistic Collaborateur. Due to by many as "perfect" prestigious interaction of the two, the " Creative Team Swan " and Anderson was named in the 1970s when she designed much of the Superman comics visually as Swanderson.

Anderson currently operates the company " Murphy Anderson Visual Concepts " the contract work in the area of ​​color separation, Lettering for magazines, picture books, comic books and done the like.

Awards

Over the decades, Anderson has been honored with numerous awards for his work. In 1962 he received the Alley Award in the category "Best Pens " in 1963 the same price as the most popular artist of the series Justice League of America, followed in 1964 Alley for the best ink drawings, and for the best cover of a comic magazine. He received the latter together with the Carmine Infantino penciler for the design of the cover for the magazine Detective Comics # 329

1988 Anderson was inducted into the Jack Kirby Hall of Fame.

  • Cartoonist
  • Americans
  • Man
  • Born in 1926
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