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Tuesday, May 24, 2005
Happy Birthday, Mr. Infantino
Today marks the 80th year Carmine Infantino has been on this planet. Any fan of comic book artwork has to be thankful for that and the previous years he spent drawing comics.
Infantino crafted a style in the late '50s and '60s that took the starkness of Bernie Krigstein and turned it into a cool kind of sleekness that matched what else was going on at the time. The look he gave the Adam Strange stories in Mystery Space and the Flash's stories in his own mag were right up there with the cool look of the cars coming out, the science fiction of movies and paperback novel covers and the confidence society had in real life science during those post-War years. It was new and exciting and was a big part of what made Showcase #4 such a hit that effectively changed the comic book industry forever. Infantino, Joe Kubert, Robert Kanigher, John Broome and Julius Schwartz took the skeleton of a popular Golden Age concept and breathed a very contemporary feel into it, one that hit the reader as soon as they set eyes on the pages inside.
That's my little spiel about what made the Silver Age Infantino so great but Dial B for Blog goes all out by showcasing many different eras of Infantino. I especially loved the sketch at the end that combined Infantino artwork and a little Bob Dylan wisdom (I did say he absorbed what was going on at the time, didn't I?).
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