Does anyone know artist Sven Elven?

[Sir-L]

Looking for information about the artist Sven Elvén whom worked for National Perodical, Fawcett and Centaur in the 1930's/1940's.

In the printed version of Jerry Bail's Who's Who (http://bailsprojects.com/(S(ohwafw55qzc25bjngbkgms45))/bio.aspx?Name=ELVEN%2c+SVEN) it says that he was born in Scandinavia, in 1880. But at ellisisland.org there's only one Sven Elvén listed, and he was born 1903/1904.

Is there anyone out there who knows if he did indeed come from Scandinavia, or does have any further information about him?

[Shellhead]

Is that name for real? Maybe he dropped out of art and founded the convenience store chain Seven Eleven:

http://www.union-network.org/UNIsite/Sectors/Commerce/Multinationals/7-Eleven_Tokyo.jpg

[Sir-L]

Hehe, the similarity did strike me to. But in Sweden Elvén (or Elfvén) is a common last name. And Sven, well it's not for nothing nearly every Swede in foreign films is named Sven.

[Rob Allen]

Neither Lambiek or the Toonopedia has anything on him. It's possible that Jerry got the wrong date; Elven's comics activity was all in 1935-41; if he were born in the 1880s he would have been in his late fifties. That's possible, but comic book artists back then tended to be young guys doing comic books for a quick buck while trying to get a gig on a newspaper comic strip.

[Sir-L]

Thank you for your answer. You're right it's more likely that Bail got the wrong year.

Ihave found some books that a Sven Elven has illustrated, all published in New York around 1930-1933. It would seem that it is the same man.

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Erskine, Laurie York, Sven Elven, Ill. Comrades of the Clouds
NY Appleton 1930. 8vo, cloth, 257 pp. Mustiness, else Near Fine in very Good+ dust jacket. Story offlying squadrons during WWI.

AUTHOR Moses, Belle.
MAIN TITLE The master of Mount Vernon, by Belle Moses ... decorations by Sven Elvén.
PUBLISHER New York, Appleton, 1932.

HOLLIDAY, ROBERT CORTES Unmentioanbles: From Figleaves to Scanties
New York, Ray Long & Richard R. Smith, 1933, First Edition. Purple cloth, Octavo, Ill.: Sven Elven, 317 pages. Illustrated throughout in black and white drawings.
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