Endnu en af de store, gamle kæmper er gået bort, John Severin er død, 90 år gammel. Severin’s karriere strakte sig fra EC Comics i 1950’erne og helt frem til vor tid, en livsbane, der omfattede så vidt forskellige genrer som Western, Krig, Fantasy, Superhelte, og Satire, specielt i MAD og Cracked, den sidstnævnte i hele 20 år. Severin havde en let genkendelig stil, meget detaljeret og krattet, der tilførte alle hans tegneserier en slags “stille kraft”. Det sidste af Severin, jeg har købt, er Marvel’s genoplivning af 60’er western serien The Rawhide Kid. Hvil i fred, John Severin, og tak for alt!
fra http://www.comicsalliance.com/2012/02/14/john-severin-artist-death-cracked-western-war-comics/
Internationally acclaimed illustrator-cartoonist, John Powers Severin (1921-2012), passed away Sunday, February 12, 2012 at his home in Denver, Colorado with his family by his side.
He was 90 years old.
Throughout his sixty plus year career in comic illustration and cartooning, Severin gained world-wide notoriety and is regarded by many fans, friends, historians, and colleagues as a truly distinctive and brilliant artist.
Long-time friend and former president and chairman of Marvel Comics, Stan Lee states, “He had an art style that was uniquely and distinctly his own.The minute you looked at his artwork you knew you were looking at a John Severin illustration; it could be no one else. Besides his inimitable style, there was a feeling of total authenticity to whatever he drew, whether it was a Western, a crime story, a superhero saga or a science fiction yarn. Not only was his penciling the very finest, but his inking, too, had a distinctive Severin touch that made every strip he rendered stand out like a winner”.
