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1917 Winslow, Indiana - 1982 Wichita, Kansas. Known for: Comic book and magazine illustration, penciller.
Reed Crandall was an American illustrator and penciller of comic books and magazines. He was best known for the Quality Comics character Blackhawk and for stories in the critically acclaimed EC... Read full biography
Reed Crandall was an American illustrator and penciller of comic books and magazines. He was best known for the Quality Comics character Blackhawk and for stories in the critically acclaimed EC Comics of the 1950s. Crandall was inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2009. Reed... Read full biography
Reed Crandall was an American illustrator and penciller of comic books and magazines. He was best known for the Quality Comics character Blackhawk and for stories in the critically acclaimed EC Comics of the 1950s. Crandall was inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2009. Reed Crandall was born in Winslow, Indiana. He graduated from Newton High School in Newton, Kansas in 1935, and from the Cleveland School of Art in Cleveland, Ohio, graduating in 1939. His father died in the... Read full biography
Reed Crandall was an American illustrator and penciller of comic books and magazines. He was best known for the Quality Comics character Blackhawk and for stories in the critically acclaimed EC Comics of the 1950s. Crandall was inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2009. Reed Crandall was born in Winslow, Indiana. He graduated from Newton High School in Newton, Kansas in 1935, and from the Cleveland School of Art in Cleveland, Ohio, graduating in 1939. His father died in the spring of Crandall's freshman year at art school, which he attended on a scholarship, and Crandall left school temporarily to return to Kansas. His mother and sister moved to Cleveland during Crandall's junior year. With his schoolmate Frank Borth,... Read full biography
Reed Crandall was an American illustrator and penciller of comic books and magazines. He was best known for the Quality Comics character Blackhawk and for stories in the critically acclaimed EC Comics of the 1950s. Crandall was inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2009. Reed Crandall was born in Winslow, Indiana. He graduated from Newton High School in Newton, Kansas in 1935, and from the Cleveland School of Art in Cleveland, Ohio, graduating in 1939. His father died in the spring of Crandall's freshman year at art school, which he attended on a scholarship, and Crandall left school temporarily to return to Kansas. His mother and sister moved to Cleveland during Crandall's junior year. With his schoolmate Frank Borth, Crandall found some of his earliest paying work painting signs on storefront windows. Crandall... Read full biography
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Reed Crandall was an American illustrator and penciller of comic books and magazines. He was best known for the Quality Comics character Blackhawk and for stories in the critically acclaimed EC Comics of the 1950s.
Crandall was inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2009.
Reed Crandall was born in Winslow, Indiana. He graduated from Newton High School in Newton, Kansas in 1935, and from the Cleveland School of Art in Cleveland, Ohio, graduating in 1939. His father died in the spring of Crandall's freshman year at art school, which he attended on a scholarship, and Crandall left school temporarily to return to Kansas.
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