Fred B Guardineer - Artist Info

About Fred B Guardineer

Name variants

Gene Baxter, Lance Blackwood, FGB
  • Biography

    Fred Guardineer's 1935-1936 Journal

    by Dylan Williams, Blog Spot, Web

    At the age of twenty-two, comic artist Fred Guardineer was fresh out of Syracuse University. He had traveled to Europe and then returned to New York City to pursue a career making art. Like most artists, Guardineer kept a sketchbook; unlike many artists, he was always efficient and organized. He documented everything and his sketchbook (and all of his work) reflected this. It also led to the production of a most amazing document, a sketchbook diary that reads like the finished one-panel-per-page novel of a young man job-hunting for an art career in the days leading up to the comic book boom that would take place in 1936.

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