Jerry Robinson (1) (1922–2011)
Autor de The Comics: An Illustrated History of Comic Strip Art
Para otros autores llamados Jerry Robinson, ver la página de desambiguación.
Sobre El Autor
Créditos de la imagen: Jerry Robinson, graphic artist
Credit: David Shankbone, 2006
Credit: David Shankbone, 2006
Series
Obras de Jerry Robinson
Batman Cover to Cover: The Greatest Comic Book Covers of the Dark Knight (2005) — Ilustrador — 46 copias
Batman in Detective Comics: Featuring the Complete Covers of the First 25 Years (Tiny Folio) (1993) — Ilustrador — 31 copias
The Zap! Pow! Bam! Superhero 1 copia
True Classroom Flubs and Fluffs 1 copia
Atomic Energy 1 copia
flubs & fluffs 1 copia
Life With Robinson 1 copia
Obras relacionadas
Marvel Masterworks, Volume 106: Atlas Era Journey Into Mystery Volume 1 [#1-10] (2008) — Ilustrador — 27 copias
Marvel Masterworks, Volume 113: Atlas Era Strange Tales Volume 2 [#11-20] (2009) — Ilustrador — 22 copias
From Shadow to Light: The Life and Art of Mort Meskin (2010) — Introducción, algunas ediciones — 17 copias
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre canónico
- Robinson, Jerry
- Nombre legal
- Robinson, Sherill David
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1922-01-01
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 2011-12-07
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Trenton, New Jersey, USA
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- New York, New York, USA
- Ocupaciones
- comic book artist
- Premios y honores
- Sparky Award (2011)
Miembros
Reseñas
Listas
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Autores relacionados
Estadísticas
- Obras
- 25
- También por
- 13
- Miembros
- 374
- Popularidad
- #64,496
- Valoración
- 3.9
- Reseñas
- 8
- ISBNs
- 30
- Idiomas
- 1
For the first year, he worked in Bob Kane’s studio but then DC employed him directly and he worked in a sort of bullpen with such greats as Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, Jack Kirby, Mort Meskin, George Roussos and others. Robinson shared an apartment with Bernie Klein who became his best friend and they worked all hours on freelance contracts with many other artists dropping by and helping out. Comics were a new medium and they were inventing new techniques, changing the designs from the strip format made for newspapers to something that fitted a whole page. They were heady days. Robinson also had a spell working for Stan Lee over at Timely comics and they got on well together.
Roughly half the book is taken up with Robinson’s comic career and it’s clearly aimed at the comic fan but there’s a lot more to the artist than that. The second hundred pages deal with the rest of his life when he branched out into book and magazine illustration and newspaper cartoons. Unlike some other talents, notably Jack Kirby, Robinson had a head for business and kept control of his own work, freelancing direct for high paying markets and often forming syndicates to spread the product more widely. He always had a toehold in other fields of illustration and when comics slumped managed to keep thriving. Of course, he was very talented and worked hard.
He was also a decent chap and involved himself in campaigning for various good causes connected to his field. He worked to free jailed political cartoonists in other countries and famously took a lead in the fight to get Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster recognition, and money, for the creation of Superman.
I bought the book because I was interested in Jerry Robinson the comic artist but must say I found the rest of his story just as interesting. Alongside the fine text, there is page after page of his wonderful drawings, including some highly amusing political cartoons and pieces from Flubs and Fluffs where he extracted humour from real-life verbal mistakes by teachers and children. Those are timeless.
I picked this up for £4.00 at The Works, a British shop that sells remaindered books and often has such bargains. It was worth every penny.… (más)