Jack Zodiac
12-10-2006, 01:02 PM
Haven't seen a link yet, but I just heard about it on the Comm forum.
For anyone who doesn't know him, Marty was the artist who created the design for Alan Scott, the Golden Age Green Lantern. He and Bill Finger worked on Green Lantern together for nearly a decade before Marty went to work at Marvel (then, Timely Comics), where he was an artist for Captain America Comics, The Human Torch, and Sub-Mariner Comics.
After a good solid couple decades in the business, Marty started working in advertising, where he created the Pillsbury Doughboy, one of the most reknowned marketing icons today, until he retired in the Seventies.
I've met Marty several times over the past decade. When I lived in Pennsylvania, I'd go to the Pittsburgh ComicCon every year, and nearly every year, Marty and his wife Carrie would be there, doing signings and sketches. When I was in my late teens, I managed a comic book store with a friend of mine and we'd set up shop at the Con every year and hang out with Marty (where I found out that he was born in around the same neighborhood as me in Philadelphia). They'd come up from Florida every year just to meet fans, even when the convention started turning to crap and lost a lot of its talent pool. The last few years I bothered to go to were were pretty much only to see Marty and his wife and see how they were doing, and it's been about three or four years since I last went.
It's been a sad year for comics fans as so many great artists and writers have passed away, and a legend like Nodell will be missed greatly.
For anyone who doesn't know him, Marty was the artist who created the design for Alan Scott, the Golden Age Green Lantern. He and Bill Finger worked on Green Lantern together for nearly a decade before Marty went to work at Marvel (then, Timely Comics), where he was an artist for Captain America Comics, The Human Torch, and Sub-Mariner Comics.
After a good solid couple decades in the business, Marty started working in advertising, where he created the Pillsbury Doughboy, one of the most reknowned marketing icons today, until he retired in the Seventies.
I've met Marty several times over the past decade. When I lived in Pennsylvania, I'd go to the Pittsburgh ComicCon every year, and nearly every year, Marty and his wife Carrie would be there, doing signings and sketches. When I was in my late teens, I managed a comic book store with a friend of mine and we'd set up shop at the Con every year and hang out with Marty (where I found out that he was born in around the same neighborhood as me in Philadelphia). They'd come up from Florida every year just to meet fans, even when the convention started turning to crap and lost a lot of its talent pool. The last few years I bothered to go to were were pretty much only to see Marty and his wife and see how they were doing, and it's been about three or four years since I last went.
It's been a sad year for comics fans as so many great artists and writers have passed away, and a legend like Nodell will be missed greatly.