Herb Trimpe

Herb Trimpe is a longtime Marvel artist who is best remembered for his work on 'The Incredible Hulk'. He joined Marvel in 1967, after a year in Vietnam and three years as a student at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan. He was hired by Stan Lee as a production assistant.

Trimpe worked on several titles for the next three decades, mainly on 'Fantastic Four' and 'The Incredible Hulk'. During the 1970s, he illustrated several Marvel series based on Japanese figures, such as 'Shogun Warriors' and ' Godzilla'. He also pencilled titles like 'Nick Fury', 'The 'Nam' and the 'Transformers-G.I. Joe' cross-over. Trimpe left Marvel in 1996, when his regular 'Fantastic Four' title was dropped.

Trimpe's pencil work stood out for its surreal moodiness, but it stood or fell depending on the inker that was on the job. Working for Marvel from the late 1960s, Trimpe brought cinematic techniques to his comics as well as a certain "EC touch".