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1926 Pleasantville, New York - 2001. Known for: Fearsome adventure comic artist-horror stories.
Born in Pleasantville, New York but raised in New York City, Johnny Craig had an illustration career almost exclusively devoted to comic books at EC Comics (Entertaining Comics). He began with the... Read full biography
Born in Pleasantville, New York but raised in New York City, Johnny Craig had an illustration career almost exclusively devoted to comic books at EC Comics (Entertaining Comics). He began with the company's predecessor in 1940, and stayed on into the mid 1950s, becoming the longest-term staff... Read full biography
Born in Pleasantville, New York but raised in New York City, Johnny Craig had an illustration career almost exclusively devoted to comic books at EC Comics (Entertaining Comics). He began with the company's predecessor in 1940, and stayed on into the mid 1950s, becoming the longest-term staff artist with EC. When EC discontinued comics, Craig took a job in Pennsylvania as an art director but was impatient because he could not do much drawing. As a result, he did some freelance work in the 1960s... Read full biography
Born in Pleasantville, New York but raised in New York City, Johnny Craig had an illustration career almost exclusively devoted to comic books at EC Comics (Entertaining Comics). He began with the company's predecessor in 1940, and stayed on into the mid 1950s, becoming the longest-term staff artist with EC. When EC discontinued comics, Craig took a job in Pennsylvania as an art director but was impatient because he could not do much drawing. As a result, he did some freelance work in the 1960s for Marvel and DC Comics and for Archie Goodwin at A.C.G., using the name of Jay Taycee. Another pseudonym was F.C. Aljohn. However, his later years as a comic book artist were frustrating to him because he found that so much of his work was... Read full biography
Born in Pleasantville, New York but raised in New York City, Johnny Craig had an illustration career almost exclusively devoted to comic books at EC Comics (Entertaining Comics). He began with the company's predecessor in 1940, and stayed on into the mid 1950s, becoming the longest-term staff artist with EC. When EC discontinued comics, Craig took a job in Pennsylvania as an art director but was impatient because he could not do much drawing. As a result, he did some freelance work in the 1960s for Marvel and DC Comics and for Archie Goodwin at A.C.G., using the name of Jay Taycee. Another pseudonym was F.C. Aljohn. However, his later years as a comic book artist were frustrating to him because he found that so much of his work was retouched so extensively that little evidence remained of the artist's hand. He took other jobs such as t... Read full biography
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Name variants
F C Aljohn, John Craig, Jay Taycee
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Born in Pleasantville, New York but raised in New York City, Johnny Craig had an illustration career almost exclusively devoted to comic books at EC Comics (Entertaining Comics). He began with the company's predecessor in 1940, and stayed on into the mid 1950s, becoming the longest-term staff artist with EC. When EC discontinued comics, Craig took a job in Pennsylvania as an art director but was impatient because he could not do much drawing. As a result, he did some freelance work in the 1960s for Marvel and DC Comics and for Archie Goodwin at A.C.G., using the name of Jay Taycee. Another pseudonym was F.C. Aljohn.
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