Alex Raymond

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Alexander Gillespie Raymond (October 2, 1909 – September 6, 1956) was an American comic strip artist, best known for creating the serial Flash Gordon in 1933. The serial hit the silver screen three years later with Buster Crabbe and Jean Rogers as the leading players. Other strips he drew include Secret Agent X-9, Rip Kirby, Jungle Jim, Tim Tyler's Luck, and Tillie the Toiler. Alex Raymond received a Reuben Award from the National Cartoonists Society in 1949 for his work on Rip Kirby.

Alex Raimond in 1953, on his Bandini italian race sport car.
Alex Raimond in 1953, on his Bandini italian race sport car.

Born in New Rochelle, New York, Alex Raymond attended Iona Prep on a scholarship and played on the Gaels' football team. He joined the US Marines Corp in 1944 and served in the Pacific theatre during World War II.

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.

During the accident which led to his untimely demise, he was said to have remarked (by the surviving passenger of the accident) on the fact that a pencil on the dashboard seemed to be floating in relation to the plummet of the vehicle. This is, if nothing else, a myth that would serve him proudly.

Alex Raymond was killed in an parachuting accident in Westport, Connecticut, aged 46, and is buried in St. Johns Roman Catholic Cemetery in Darien, Connecticut.

He was the great-uncle of actors Matt Dillon and Kevin Dillon. [1]

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