Carmine Infantino
(b. 24/5/1925, USA)
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Carmine Infantino attended both the School of Industrial Arts and the Art Students League in New York. He entered the comic field as the illustrator of Timely's 'Jack Frost' in 1942. In 1946, he began illustrating the 'Ghost Patrol' for National, and for this company he also did work on 'The Flash', 'Johnny Thunder', 'Green Lantern' and 'Black Canary'. In 1950s Infantino changed his drawing style from angular and rough to a design strongly influenced by the fine-line illustrations of pulp artists Edd Cartier and Lou Fine.
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Pow-wow Smith (Western Comics, 1959)
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Infantino's best work is the revived version of 'The Flash', which he drew for eleven years, from 1956 to 1967. During this period, he also drew the comics 'Adam Strange', 'Deadman', 'Fire Hair' and 'Batman'. From 1967 to the late 70s, he worked respectively as editorial director for DC Comics and as a publisher. He edited titles like 'Bomba', 'Bat Lash', 'Captain Marvel', 'The Shadow', 'Green Lantern/Green Arrow' and the 'Tarzan' comic books.
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He was subsequently active for Warren and Marvel. In 1982, Infantino took on 'The Flash' once again, and worked on 'V' and 'Red Tornade'. In recent years, he has been living in semi-retirement, drawing only occasionally for comic books. He has, for instance, worked on the daily 'Batman' strip with William Messner-Loebs and John Nyberg in 1990-91.
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