Gray Morrow
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 Gray Morrow by Michael Netzer |
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| Born | Dwight Graydon Morrow March 7, 1934 Fort Wayne, Indiana |
| Died | November 6, 2001 (aged 67) Kunkletown, Pennsylvania |
| Nationality | American |
| Area(s) | Penciller, Inker |
| Notable works | Tarzan, Buck Rogers, Flash Gordon and Prince Valiant |
| Awards | Nominated for Hugo Award in 1966, 1967, and 1968. |
Dwight Graydon "Gray" Morrow (March 7, 1934 - November 6, 2001) was an American illustrator of paperback books and comics.
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[edit] Biography
Born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, Morrow is best known as art director of Spider-Man between 1967 and 1970 and as illustrator of the syndicated Tarzan, Buck Rogers, Flash Gordon and Prince Valiant comic strips, among others.
Morrow was a feature cover and interior illustrator for many science fiction-genre magazines in the 1960s and 1970s. Examples of his work graced most of the covers of the American Perry Rhodan series. He also did the illustrations for the original Galaxy magazine publication of the Hugo-winning novella Soldier, Ask Not by Gordon R. Dickson. Morrow worked with Warren Publishing from 1964 to 1967 on the comic magazines Creepy, Eerie and Blazing Combat, doing both stories and covers.
In the early 1960s, Morrow produced three complete titles for the Gilberton Company's Classics Illustrated series: No. 159, The Octopus by Frank Norris (November 1960); No. 163, Master of the World by Jules Verne (July 1961); No. 165, The Queen's Necklace by Alexandre Dumas (January 1962).[1] In a letter to Classics historian William B. Jones, Jr., the artist stated that he penciled and inked The Queen's Necklace at a rate of "eight pages a day."[2] Morrow also supplied drawings for chapters in one Classics Illustrated Special Issue -- No. 159A, Rockets, Jets and Missiles (December 1960) -- and in a substantial number of World Around Us issues: Prehistoric Animals (November 1959); Great Scientists (February 1960); The Jungle (March 1960); American Presidents (May 1960); Boating (June 1960); Great Explorers (July 1960); Ghosts (August 1960); Magic (September 1960); High Adventure (November 1960); Whaling (December 1960); The Vikings (January 1961); For Gold and Glory (April 1961); Famous Teens (May 1961).[3]
[edit] Death
Morrow, who had Parkinson's disease and could no longer draw, died of a self-inflicted gunshot at his home in Kunkletown, Pennsylvania.[4]
[edit] Awards
Morrow was nominated for the Hugo Award for best professional artist in 1966, 1967, and 1968.
[edit] References
- ^ Jones, William B., Jr., Classics Illustrated: A Cultural History, Second Edition (McFarland, 2011), pp. 333, 334.
- ^ Jones, Classics Illustrated, Second Edition, p. 221.
- ^ Jones, pp. 343, 346-348.
- ^ Evanier, Mark. "News from Me," POV Online (November 8, 2001).
[edit] External links
- Gray Morrow at Lambiek's Comiclopedia
- In Memoriam
- Gray Morrow at the Action Figure Museum
