| Creator Mort Meskin (1916-1995) |
| Profession Artist |
| Total Entries 11 |
| Articles Morton Meskin – Lambiek Comiclopedia Mort Meskin – Wikipedia |
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Morton “Mort” Meskin began his career in comics like so many other young and motivated artists, working at the new comic book assembly-line sweatshops in the late 1930s. Meskin first worked at the Eisner and Iger shop, penciling Sheena, Queen of the Jungle for Fiction House’s Jungle Comics, then at the Harry “A” Chesler shop, creating art for the MLJ line of comics. In 1941 he moved on to National Periodical Publications (DC) and drew stories for titles featuring their new superheroes Vigilante (featured in Action Comics), Wildcat, and Starman. That same year Meskin saw the new film directed by Orson Welles, Citizen Kane, and he was mesmerized. He went back to watch it thirteen times during its initial run, fully absorbing Welles’ brilliant visual storytelling and groundbreaking noirish use of shadow and light, which had a profound effect on his comics work. Soon the low-key Meskin was considered a comic book stylist by his peers, and his work from the Golden Age of comics, created for a wide variety of genres, still stands out for its clean, dignified, and stunning graphic storytelling… ~ Drew Friedman’s Heroes of the Comics: Portraits of the Legends of Comic Books – Fantagraphics (2014)
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