Herb Trimpe
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Trimpe at the 2015 East Coast Comiccon,
his last convention appearance |
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| Born |
May 26, 1939 Peekskill, New York |
| Died | April 13, 2015 (aged 75) |
| Nationality | American |
| Area(s) | Writer, Penciller, Inker |
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Notable works
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Hulk, Wolverine Defenders |
| Awards |
Bob Clampett Humanitarian Award, 2002 Inkpot Award, 2002 |
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Herbert William "Herb" Trimpe (May 26, 1939 – April 13, 2015) was an American comic book artist and occasional writer, best known as the seminal 1970s artist on The Incredible Hulk and as the first artist to draw for publication the character Wolverine, who later became a breakout star of the X-Men.
Herb Trimpe was born May 26, 1939, in Peekskill, New York, where he graduated from Lakeland High School. His brother, Mike Trimpe, inked an Ant-Man story that Trimpe pencilled in Marvel Feature #6 (Nov. 1972). Of his childhood art and comics influences, he said in 2002, "I really loved the Disney stuff, Donald Duck and characters like that. Funny-animal stuff, that was kind of my favorite, and I liked to draw that kind of thing. And I also liked ... Plastic Man. ... I loved comics since I was a little kid, but I was actually more interested in syndicating a comic strip than working in comics." As well, "I was a really big fan of EC comics and [artist] Jack Davis."
Trimpe commuted to New York City for three years to attend the School of Visual Arts. There, Trimpe recalled in 2002, instructor and longtime comics artist Tom Gill needed a student "to ink his backgrounds and stuff. So that's how I started, at Dell [Comics], doing mostly Westerns and also licensed books, like the adaptation of the movie Journey to the Center of the Earth."
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