Dick Giordano - Artist Info

About Dick Giordano

  • Biography

    The following obituary is from The New York Times, March 31, 2010 by George Gene Gustines

    Dick Giordano, a comic book artist and former executive editor at DC Comics who helped revive longstanding comic book characters and re-imagine them for new audiences, died on Saturday at the Memorial Medical Center in Daytona Beach, Fla. He was 77 and lived in Palm Coast, Fla.

    The cause was complications of treatment for leukemia, Pat Bastienne, a longtime friend and colleague, said in an e-mail message.

    Mr. Giordano worked in the comic book industry for more than 40 years. As an editor at DC, he oversaw projects that signaled a new level of maturity in the medium, including The Dark Knight Returns, about an aging Ba...

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