| Creator Lou Fine (1914-1971) |
| Profession Penciller, Inker |
| Total Entries 23 |
| Articles Lou Fine – Lambiek Comiclopedia Lou Fine – Wikipedia |
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Lou Fine began his career in comics at the Esiner and Iger comics packaging shop in the late thirties, using various pseudonyms to give the appearance that the shop had a large stable of artists. Fine, continuing with his various pen names, was soon considered one of the finest draftsmen and designers of the Golden Age of comics among his peers, creating outstanding work for Quality, Fiction House, and Fox Feature Syndicate, where he drew the feature The Flame. He was an artist’s artist, turning out exquisite comic book artwork achieved via his painstaking attention to detail and the introduction of his highly influential, standard-setting feathering technique, which used rows of wedge-shaped brushstrokes to achieve an effect of changing tones. He also created many radiant, exciting covers for Hit Comics, Fantastic Comics, and Wonderworld Comics, among others. His career in comic books was breathtaking yet brief, and soon he would be ghosting for Will Eisner‘s Sunday-supplement newspaper comic book The Spirit, as Esiner was serving in the military. From the late forties on Fine worked full-time on syndicated comic strip work. Jack Kirby claimed Lou Fine was his favorite artist, and Will Esiner said about Fine: “He was the epitome of the honest draftman, No fakery, no razzle-dazzle.” ~ Drew Friedman’s Heroes of the Comics: Portraits of the Legends of Comic Books – Fantagraphics (2014)
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