Frank Springer
| Frank Springer | |
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Frank Springer c. 1975
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| Born |
December 6, 1929 Jamaica, Queens, New York City, New York |
| Died | April 2, 2009 (aged 79) Damariscotta, Maine |
| Nationality | American |
| Area(s) | Penciller, Inker |
| Pseudonym(s) | Francis Hollidge Bob Monhegan |
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Notable works
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"The Adventures of Phoebe Zeit-Geist" Dazzler Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. |
| Awards |
National Cartoonists Society Reuben Award, 1973, 1977, 1981 |
National Cartoonists Society Reuben Award, 1973, 1977, 1981
Frank Springer (December 6, 1929 – April 2, 2009) was an American comic book and comic strip artist best known for Marvel Comics' Dazzler and Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.. As well, in collaboration with writer Michael O'Donoghue, Springer created one of the first adult-oriented comics features on American newsstands: "The Adventures of Phoebe Zeit-Geist" in the magazine Evergreen Review. A multiple winner of the National Cartoonists Society's Reuben Award, Springer was a president of the Society and a founding member of the Berndt Toast Gang, its Long Island chapter.
Frank Springer was born in the Jamaica neighborhood of the New York City borough of Queens, and moved with his family to nearby Nassau County, Long Island when he was nearly 10 years old. He graduated from Malverne High School in Malverne, New York, in 1948. He had one sibling, a sister, who predeceased him. Springer, whose art influences included adventure comic strips and magazine-cover illustrations by Norman Rockwell, Dean Cornwell, and J. C. Leyendecker, went on to earn an art degree from Syracuse University in 1952, and after being drafted that year, served with the U.S. Army through 1954. Stationed at Fort Dix, he spent his service, he said, "drawing pictures, drawing charts and that kind of thing. ... I got a lot of training in the army in doing sports cartoons with a deadline and so on." Following his discharge, he began freelancing in New York City, soon becoming assistant to cartoonist George Wunder on the comic strip Terry and the Pirates, on which Wunder had succeeded creator Milt Caniff. Springer recalled in 2008,
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