Frank Chiaramonte

Frank Chiaramonte
Frank Chiaramonte
Born	Francisco Chiaramonte June 5, 1942 Cuba
Died	January 1983 (aged 40)
Area(s)	Inker, penciller
Pseudonym(s)	Frank Monte
Notable works	Superman, Ghost Rider, Man-Thing, Werewolf by Night

Francisco "Frank" Chiaramonte (June 5, 1942 – January 1983) was a Cuban-American comic book artist best known as an inker for DC Comics and Marvel Comics from 1972 to 1982.

Born in Cuba, Frank Chiaramonte emigrated to the United States in 1967. Some of his earliest comics-related work in the U.S. was as an inker under artist-packager Will Eisner and penciler Mike Ploog on the military instructional publication PS, The Preventive Maintenance Monthly. As fellow PS artist Murphy Anderson recalled, "Frank had come to work for Will about the same time I did, maybe a month or two later, and was just fresh from Cuba. ... [H]is father was Sicilian, but his mother was Spanish, or Cuban. Frank considered himself as Italian as he did Cuban. ... Frank worked with me and did most of the tech art."

When Ploog moved on and began finding freelance work at Marvel Comics, Chiaramonte collaborated with him as inker on several of Ploog's earliest stories, including in Werewolf by Night #1-3 (Sept. 1972 - Jan. 1973) and Marvel Spotlight #7 (Dec. 1972), featuring Ghost Rider. He also inked several Ploog stories in the swamp-monster series Man-Thing in 1974, and Ploog stories in the black-and-white comics magazine Planet of the Apes in 1974 and 1975.