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Roger Langridge
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Hilarious cartoonist whose work includes strips
for Doctor Who Magazine. A real genius -- you can have his Hotel
Fred strip e-mailed to you. Recommended.
Don Lawrence
Official: www.donlawrence.co.uk
Artist on The
Trigan Empire and creator of Storm.
Bob Layton
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Bob Layton, whose credits include a stunning
run on Iron Man,
is a jack of all trades - penciler, inker, editor, studio head, idea guy,
and production manager rolled into one.
Steve Lieber
Official: unrewarding.com/steve/
Portland Oregon-based Cartoonist, illustrator
and storyboard artist.
Norman Light
UK Comics expert Steve Holland outlines the career of Captain
Future creator Light on
a larger site about Billy Bunter creator Frank Richards. Norman Light’s
earliest known work was for Martin & Reid
shortly after the war, illustrating magazines and providing filler strips for
their Jolly Western comic.
Westerns became his main output in comics for some years; apart from one-off
back-up strips for Commando
Craig and Prairie Western,
he drew nine Five Star Gentr strips
for Scion’s Five Star Western in
1951-52.
He had already written and drawn Commando
Craig for
Scion, the crime-fighting adventures of Craig and his two companions, ex-Navy
type ‘Dusty’ Miller
and pilot ‘Rocky’ Rockwood. Trying to cram 13-16 frames of story into a page
didn’t
allow Light to put in his customary detail, and his early comic work suffered
in comparison to his covers.
Light’s first science fiction strips appeared from Scion in 1952, but it was
with his self-published Spaceman: Comic of the
Future that
Light really came into his own. This was the first publication from Gould-Light,
published in around March 1953, and from the full-colour cover through the 24
pages of comic strips, almost everything was written and drawn by Norman Light
(Spaceman also featured
a strip Bill Merrill of the Scientific Investigation
Bureau, drawn by a young Ron Embleton, returned from the
war).
The main star was Captain Future of the futuristic Space Patrol, and Steve says
these adventures are still something of a Holy Grail to some fans of SF comics.
"They might not be the best SF published in that era or even the best drawn
SF comics, but original copies are extremely scarce and there’s a delightful
naivete about the stories, full of pulp cliches and post-war exuberance at mankind’s
recent entry into the rocket age."
Light’s breathless adventures carried
the title through 15 issues between the Spring of 1953 and early Summer of
1954, a creditable run for an independently produced comic.
Ellen Lindner
E-mail: Ellen_Lindner@bust.com
Ellen Lindner is an inveterate New Yorker currently living outside of
Philadelphia.
David Lloyd
Official: www.lforlloyd.com
Artist-writer for Kickback,
V
for Vendetta, Hellblazer,
War
Stories, Night Raven, Espers and
much more.
•
Read
our 2006 interview with David Lloyd
• Read Forbidden Planet International's 2006 interview with David
Nigel Lowery
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Heroine art, strips and other illustrations
James E. Lyle
Official: www.comicartistsdirect.com/lyle.html
James E. Lyle is a living illustration of the success of comic books for the past 25 years. His Escape to the Stars was at the vanguard of the second wave of alternative comics in the 1980s. Up through the present day, James has honed his skills as illustrator and craftsman.
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