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  Comic creator: Alex Raymond
By the end of 1935, Alex Raymond stopped with 'Secret Agent X9' to spend more time on his Sunday features.
Alex Raymond died at the height of his fame, on 6 September 1956, after a car accident.
Alex Raymond's influence on other cartoonists was considerable during his lifetime, and has not diminished after his death.
www.lambiek.net /artists/r/raymond.htm   (286 words)

  
  Alex Raymond - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Alex Raymond (October 2, 1909- September 6, 1956) was an American comic strip artist, best known for his work on Flash Gordon.
Raymond received a Reuben Award from the National Cartoonists Society in 1949 for his work on Rip Kirby.
Raymond served in the US Marines in World War II.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alex_Raymond   (140 words)

  
 Hogan's Alley
The Alex Raymond that Stan Drake recalls was a striking figure: matinee-idol handsome with a pencil-thin mustache, virile, hugely talented and admired among his peers, having served as president of the National Cartoonists Society (its third chief, succeeding Rube Goldberg and Milton Caniff).
Raymond, while a master of cartooning, was also an eager student of the form, and he had dropped by Drake's Westport, Connecticut, studio to talk shop.
Raymond said he wanted to drive the Corvette, which boasted 450 horsepower and a four-second acceleration from 0 to 60 miles per hour, to compare it to one of his cars, a gullwing Mercedes that was then in the shop to have platinum plugs installed.
cagle.msnbc.com /hogan/features/raymond/raymond.asp   (1513 words)

  
 HOGAN'S ALLEY ONLINE - ALEX RAYMOND'S DEATH
Alex Raymond, then known as the creator of Rip Kirby, had died the previous day in a single-car accident.
The Alex Raymond that Stan Drake recalls was a striking figure: matinee-idol handsome with a pencil-thin mustache, virile, hugely talented and admired among his peers, having served as president of the National Cartoonists Society (its third chief, succeeding Rube Goldberg and Milton Caniff).
Raymond, while a master of cartooning, was also an eager student of the form, and he had dropped by Drake's Westport, Connecticut, studio to talk shop.
www.cagle.com /hogan/features/raymond.asp   (683 words)

  
 The Secret World of Alex Mack Episode Guide - The Secret World of Alex Mack Season Episodes - TV.com
Alex and Raymond are continually harassed by upperclassmen Jessica and Ellen.
Alex, Raymond, and Nicole are facing their first junior high school midterm in history class.
Alex and Ray have a falling-out and Alex is afraid Ray will disclose her secret to the plant.
www.tv.com /secret-world-of-alex-mack/show/325/episode_guide.html   (628 words)

  
 HiES - Flash Gordon
Alexander Gillespie Raymond was born on October 2, 1909 in New Rochelle, state of New York.
Raymond began to draw Flash in the Sunday paper in his typical hyperrealistic way, full of dynamism, with an eye for details.
After Raymond, his assistant Austin Briggs took up drawing Flash; at first he only did the daily sequels, but later on, when Alex went to war, he took over the Sunday ones as well.
comics.cro.net /e-flash.html   (906 words)

  
 Alex Raymond -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Alex Raymond (1909-1956) was an American (A sequence of drawings telling a story in a newspaper or comic book) comic strip artist, best known for his work on (Click link for more info and facts about Flash Gordon) Flash Gordon.
Raymond received a (Click link for more info and facts about Reuben Award) Reuben Award from the (Click link for more info and facts about National Cartoonists Society) National Cartoonists Society in 1949 for his work on Rip Kirby.
Raymond served in the (Click link for more info and facts about US Marines) US Marines in (A war between the Allies (Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Ethiopia, France, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, India, Iran, Iraq, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherl) World War II.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/A/Al/Alex_Raymond.htm   (208 words)

  
 v Armored Knights v
Then Steve, me, Pac-man, Alex, Johnny decide to go on patrol down in the valley where we were going to airsoft in.
I don't think Raymond told the rest of us that plan, so Gary and Pacman were hit pretty quick due to the lack of fire support.
Raymond and I take a high position on the opposite hill from group JA.
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 Raymond, Alex --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Alex Karras was born on July 15, 1935, in Gary, Ind. In 1958 he was a first-round draft pick for the Detroit Lions and gained All-Pro status with them from 1960 through 1962.
The Canadian-American actor Raymond Massey became widely known to theater and movie audiences in the United States for his portrayal of Abraham Lincoln in Robert Sherwood's ‘Abe Lincoln in Illinois'.
It was a role with which he became identified in spite of the great number of other parts he took in dozens of plays and films.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9062829   (722 words)

  
 CollectingChannel.com News Click   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Alex Raymond steered the Sunday funnies toward romantic themes with exotic locales, memorable villains, and breathless action in this science fiction classic.
Alexander Gillespie Raymond was born October 2, 1909 in New Rochelle, New York.
Alex Raymond's life was unexpectedly cut short in a car accident in Westport, Connecticut on September 6, 1956.
www.collectingchannel.com /cdsdetNC.asp?CID=&PID=102768   (814 words)

  
 Comic creator: Alex Raymond   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
By the end of 1935, Alex Raymond stopped with 'Secret Agent X9' to spend more time on his Sunday features.
Alex Raymond died at the height of his fame, on 6 September 1956, after a car accident.
Alex Raymond's influence on other cartoonists was considerable during his lifetime, and has not diminished after his death.
www.lambiek.nl /raymond.htm   (289 words)

  
 Alex Raymond and Rip Kirby
Raymond had a history of responding to wide variety of visual influences, adapting and absorbing them so organically it became hard to see where influence left off and Raymond’s own experimentation began, yet always with an eye to magnify, to amplify the romantic imagery in his strips.
Raymond typically used a 4 panel arrangement on X-9 and predominantly a middle distance and beyond point of view, almost as if the reader was observing the action no closer than the 50 yard line.
Raymond, after La Gatta: From my very first comic art essay, written 10 years ago: "The key to recognizing La Gatta's influence on Raymond is to look for the 'collapsed female,' the relaxed, unbalanced pose.
profmendez.tripod.com /html/ripk.html   (1678 words)

  
 Alex Raymond
Alex Raymond blev født 2.10.1909 i New Rochelle, New York.
Da Raymond i 1944 blev indkaldt til militæret, satte han sin daværende assistent Austin Briggs, som allerede 27.5.1940 var startet på en dagstripversion af serien, til at videreføre søndagssiden.
Alex Raymonds bror Jim (1917-81) startede i 1935 en tegneseriekarriere som assistent for Chic Young, hvis strip Blondie han fortsatte efter Youngs død i 1973.
www.tegneseriemuseet.dk /emner/raymond.htm   (640 words)

  
 Alex Raymond
Alexander Gillespie Raymond (October 2, 1909- September 6, 1956) was an American comic strip artist, best known for his work on Flash Gordon.
Raymond received a Reuben Award from the National Cartoonists Society in 1949 for his work on Rip Kirby.
His realistic style and skillful use of "feathering" (a shading technique in which a soft series of parallel lines helps to suggest the contour of an object) has continued to be an inspiration for generations of cartoonists.
www.sfcrowsnest.com /scifinder/a/Alex_Raymond.php   (193 words)

  
 DVD Review of Flash Gordon: The Animated Movie - Marooned on Mongo - DVDtoons!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Raymond, as the original artist, had the largest influence, setting the tone for decades of strips.
Raymond’s work is legendary, due to his exquisite figures and realistic drawing style.
Even today, many comic artists list Raymond as a strong influence, despite the fact that he was killed many years ago at the relatively young age of 46 in a car accident.
www.dvdtoons.com /reviews/347   (1839 words)

  
 The Holloway Pages: Pulp Heroes: Flash Gordon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Alex Raymond had been ghosting Tim Tyler's Luck for King Features when he learned that the syndicate was looking for a science fiction strip to compete with Buck Rogers, which was distributed by a rival syndicate.
Although the storyline returns to Alex Raymond's source material (with the exception of the aforementioned "Purple Death"), the actors are getting tired and the use of stock footage increases.
While remaining fairly faithful to Alex Raymond's storyline, this series of thirty-minute episodes was updated a bit to reflect the post-Star Wars tastes of its audience.
home.comcast.net /~cjh5801a/Flash.htm   (3821 words)

  
 Rare Alex Raymond Illustration Offered at Auction.
To Drake, Alex Raymond was a striking figure -- matinee-idol handsome with a pencil-thin mustache, virile, hugely talented and admired among his peers.
Alex Raymond wanted to test drive Drake's new 1956 Corvette convertible, which boasted 450 horsepower, and a four-second acceleration from 0 to 60 miles per hour.
Many Flash Gordon aficionados consider 1935-36 to be the artistic peak of Alex Raymond's career, and after marveling at this masterful drawing, it would be hard to refute that opinion.
comics.heritageauctions.com /common/info/press/default.php?ReleaseID=599   (660 words)

  
 Don Markstein's Toonopedia: Flash Gordon
But Mongo's inhabitants were able to provide years of adventures, and Raymond's art was among the most highly-regarded — and most imitated — in all of comics.
Raymond didn't return to the strip after the war (he busied himself with a new one, Rip Kirby), so Briggs continued until 1948.
Although Raymond is most closely associated with Flash Gordon in the minds of comics aficionados, the man who devoted more of his professional life to the strip than any other was Dan Barry.
www.toonopedia.com /fgordon.htm   (730 words)

  
 The Web - A 1940's Comic Book Hero   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
One suspects that Alex Raymond helped create a cultural ideal in his heroes, masculine, intelligent, courageous, highly competent and professional, not to mention very well dressed.
Alex Raymond was at the height of his prestige in the 1940's, and was one of the most admired comic artists in the world.
John Raymond's use of brain work, and dignified life as a professor, are consistent with the Weird Menace tradition in the pulps.
members.aol.com /MG4273/theweb.htm   (977 words)

  
 Alex Raymond   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Alex Raymond, his true name being Alexander Gillespie Raymond, was born in New Rochel in 1909.
From January 1934 on, Alex Raymond publishes his first Sunday pages of Flash Gordon, together with a complementary series of Jungle Jin.
Alex raymond is still one of the great figures of American strip cartoon.
www.ricochet-jeunes.org /eng/biblio/author/raymond.html   (100 words)

  
 Comic Art & Graffix Gallery Artist Biographies - Alex Raymond
Alex Raymond was born October 2, 1909 in New Rochelle, New York.
Late in 1933, Raymond was given the assignment of creating a science fiction strip to compete with Buck Rogers, and along with writer Don Moore created "Flash Gordon" and "Jungle Jim".
In 1944 Raymond left the strip and joined the Marines, fighting in the Pacific theatre on the battleship Gilbert Islands, leaving the armed services as a Major in 1946.
www.comic-art.com /biographies/raymond1.htm   (383 words)

  
 Hard-Boiled Mysteries : American Hard-Boiled Comics -2- Secret Agent X9
Alex Raymond did one more story on a script by Leslie Charteris (known for his "Saint" novels); the story was miles lower than the Hammett scripts, and Raymond finally quitted in 1936 leaving the Agent X9 series in the hands of new teams.
Charles Flanders, in charge until 1938 had less talent as an artist, compared to Raymond, but he was lucky enough to be backed up by rather good scripts, keeping the interest of the readers.
Only during 1934 was the magic strong enough to partner in the same comic two legendary creators: Hammett the writer and Raymond the artist, both of them being masterful founders in their respective arts at the time.
www.geocities.com /Athens/6384/amercom2.html   (582 words)

  
 Flash Gordon - The Comic Strip » Solar Flare: Science Fiction News
He was invented by Alex Raymond who wrote and drew the strip for the first 10 years.
Alex Raymond is the initial writer and artist.
Not wanting to lose Raymond to a rival syndicate, King gives him the oppurtunity to create a new strip and gives him the stipulation that if it fails he can return to Flash.
www.sflare.com /archives/flash-gordon-the-comic-strip   (653 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Alex Raymond
October 2nd is the 275th day (276th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 90 days remaining.
Flash Gordon is a science fiction comic strip originally drawn by Alex Raymond, first published on January 7, 1934.
Secret Agent X-9 was a comic strip begun by writer Dashiell Hammett (The Maltese Falcon) and artist Alex Raymond (Flash Gordon).
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Alex-Raymond   (371 words)

  
 Reviews of 'Alex Raymond's Flash Gordon, Vol. 1 (Alex Raymond's Flash Gordon)'
It's hard to read Alex Raymond's comic strips without the Queen soundtrack running through my head from the early 1980s movie.
And all the principals from that movie are from the comic strip: Dale Arden, the constant damsel-in-distress; Princess Aura, the manipulative yet beautiful woman out to seduce Flash; Prince Barin, the dashing rebel; King Vultan, the violent yet honorable Lord of the Hawkmen; and Hans Zarkov, the brilliant yet slightly mad scientist.
I wish checkers would also reprint in the same format/hardcover Alex Raymond other probably best work Rip Kirby as it is in big demand but very few quality books available on this character except if you buy reprints from Europe.
www.usingenglish.com /amazon/us/reviews/097416643X.html   (658 words)

  
 Alex Raymond's Flash Gordon, Vol. 1 (Alex Raymond's Flash Gordon)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Alex Raymond created Flash Gordon as a full page comic strip on January 7, 1934.
Before science fiction became legend in Movies and TV Shows, like the Star Wars Saga, Lost in Space and Star Trek, one man's name was once science fiction's name for a hero in the golden age of comics.
I say "awkward" because oblong editions don't store easily on the bookshelf, but the benefit is that you get the strips in their original format.
www.civilbook.com /index/book/097416643X.html   (510 words)

  
 Alibris: Alex Raymond
Alex Raymond's masterful artwork and storytelling create a world that has enchanted imaginations for decades.
Ming the Merciless, the traitorous Klag, a mysterious creature known as "The Mind," and a host of villains and dangers oppose the hardy, heroic Flash in a reprint series that marks the first time that Mac Raboy's run on this...
by Raymond, Alex (Illustrator), and Ryder, Marion C. Adventures of the family of a ship's captain in Cape Cod more than a century ago.
www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Alex_Raymond   (436 words)

  
 Aron, Raymond --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
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After playing professional football to finance his schooling, Byron Raymond White became a successful lawyer and a Supreme Court associate justice.
White was born on June 8, 1917, in Fort Collins, Colo. He received a bachelor's degree from the University of Colorado in 1938, where he was an outstanding football player and acquired the nickname Whizzer White.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9009594   (746 words)

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