- Alex Raymond
Alexander Gillespie Raymond (
October 2 ,1909 –September 6 ,1956 ) was an Americancomic strip artist, best known for creating the comic "Flash Gordon " in 1934. The serial hit the silver screen three years later withBuster Crabbe andJean Rogers as the leading players. Other strips he drew include "Secret Agent X-9 ", "Rip Kirby ", "Jungle Jim ", "Tim Tyler's Luck ", and "Tillie the Toiler". Alex Raymond received aReuben Award from theNational Cartoonists Society in 1949 for his work on "Rip Kirby ".Born in
New Rochelle, New York , Alex Raymond attendedIona Prep on a scholarship and played on the Gaels' football team. He joined the US Marines Corp in 1944 and served in the Pacific theatre duringWorld War II . His realistic style and skillful use of "feathering" (a shading technique in which a soft series of parallel lines helps to suggest the contour of an object) has continued to be an inspiration for generations of cartoonists.Raymond was killed in an automobile accident in
Westport, Connecticut while driving with fellow cartoonistStan Drake , aged 46, and is buried in St. John's Roman Catholic Cemetery inDarien, Connecticut .During the accident which led to his demise, he was said to have remarked (by the surviving passenger of the accident) on the fact that a pencil on the dashboard seemed to be floating in relation to the plummet of the vehicle.fact
He was the great-uncle of actors
Matt Dillon and Kevin Dillon.factExternal links
* [http://www.flashgordon.de www.flashgordon.de] Flash Gordon Community
*findagrave|21281 Retrieved on2008-01-23
* [http://cagle.msnbc.com/hogan/features/raymond/raymond.asp] Stan Drake talks about the car accidentReferences
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