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In 1956, Raymond was killed in a car crash at the age of 46. [3] He became known as "the artist's artist" [4] and his much-imitated style can be seen on the many strips that he illustrated.
Nov 23, 2021 · Alex Raymond was killed on Sept. 6, 1956, when the car he was driving crashed into a tree in Westport, Connecticut. The 46-year old artist, who created the Flash Gordon, Secret Agent X-9, and Rip Kirby comic strips, was driving Stan Drake’s 1956 Corvette.
Nov 10, 2021 · On the afternoon of September 6, 1956, famed cartoonist Alex Raymond, creator of Flash Gordon, took fellow artist Stan Drake’s new Corvette out for a spin through rural Connecticut. Raymond...
Mar 31, 2021 · But it has refused to die. And now, new comics publisher Living The Line is to publish The Strange Death of Alex Raymond as a graphic novel, coming to comic stores in July and bookstores in...
- Rich Johnston
Jan 6, 2022 · First, it accomplishes two things, one of closure since its fifth page finally shows the crash that killed Alex Raymond that had been so painfully, meticulously and slowly approached over his 26 issues of Glamourpuss from 2008-2012.
Spinning out of Sim’s history of photo-realism in comics from his series Glamourpuss (April 2008 – July 2012), The Strange Death of Alex Raymond deals with the death of Alex Raymond in an accident while driving Stan Drake’s 1956 Corvette on September 6th, 1956, and all the “Comic-Art Metaphysics” (as Sim has dubbed it,) that goes ...
His friend and colleague/competitor Alex Raymond, another highly famous and influential newspaper comics artist, dropped by to take it for a spin. Driving at high speed Raymond lost control of the car and crashed it, killing himself and badly injuring Drake.
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