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    Alex Raymond. Alexander Gillespie Raymond Jr. (October 2, 1909 – September 6, 1956) [2] was an American cartoonist and illustrator who was best known for creating the Flash Gordon comic strip for King Features Syndicate in 1934.

  2. Nov 10, 2021 · The Strange Death of Alex Raymond (hardcover, 320 pages, $39.99) by Dave Sim and Carson Grubaugh, with an introduction by Eddie Campbell, is available November 10, 2021, from Living the Line.

  3. 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. Drake, the artist behind The Heart of Juliet Jones, was a passenger in the convertible ...

  4. Aug 17, 2021 · The Strange Death of Alex Raymond’ with story and art by Dave Sim and Carson Grubaugh is a tour-de-force graphic novel that will have my head spinning for a while. Starting off as a discussion of styles of comics greatest creators Alex Raymond, whose fine brushwork was astounding, and Stan Drake and Hal Foster.

  5. Apr 3, 2024 · Alex Raymond was a U.S. comic-strip artist notable for his creation of a number of outstanding and successful adventure comic strips. At 18 Raymond went to work in a brokerage office on New York City’s Wall Street, but the stock market crash of 1929 ended his career in finance.

  6. 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. The final shot seen in issue 26 shows from the perspective of both Raymond and Drake their hands in the air ...

  7. Nov 3, 2021 · 121 ratings52 reviews. Legendary creator Dave Sim is renowned world-wide for his groundbreaking Cerebus the Aardvark. Now, in The Strange Death of Alex Raymond, Sim brings to life the history of comics' greatest creators, using their own techniques. Equal parts Understanding Comics and From Hell, Strange Death is a head-on collision of ink ...

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