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Bio: Alex Raymond
- Born October 2, 1909.
- Attends Iona Prep on an athletic scholarship. Job on wall
street after graduation as an order clerk. Finding himself out
of work with the crash of the stock market, enrolls in the Grand
Central School of Art.
- Begins comic strip work as an an assistant to Russ Westover
on Tillie the Toiler. Later, assists Chic Young
on Blondie.
- Becomes Lyman Young's (Chic's brother) assistant on Tim Tyler's Luck.
- 1934: Begins drawing Flash Gordon, along with top
tier Jungle Jim. Also takes on Secret Agent X-9
with Dashiell Hammett handling the writing chores.
- 1935: Drops Secret Agent X-9.
- 1944: Enlists in the Marine Corps leaving Flash Gordon to
writer Don Moore and artist Austin Briggs - Briggs
has already been drawing the dailies and assisting occasionally
on the Sundays.
- When Raymond returns after the war, locked out of continuing
Flash because of King Feature's contract with Briggs. Not wanting
to lose Raymond to a rival syndicate, King gives him the oppurtunity
to create a new strip and gives him the stipulation that if it
fails he can return to Flash.
- 1946: Raymond creates Rip Kirby.
- 1949: Raymond wins Reuben Award for "Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year."
- September 1956: Killed in an automobile accident near Westport,
Connecticut at age 46.
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