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Graham Ingels
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Graham Ingels (June 7, 1915- April 4, 1991) was a comic-book artist best known for his work at the EC Comics company in the 1950s, notably on The Haunt of Fear and Tales from the Crypt, horror titles written and edited by Al Feldstein, and The Vault of Horror, written and edited by Feldstein and Johnny Craig.
Before working for EC, Ingels illustrated for Fiction House, Magazine Enterprises and other publishers of comic books and pulp magazines. He began at EC by doing Western and romance stories. His flair for horror led the company to promote him as "Ghastly Graham Ingels," and he sometimes signed his work "Ghastly." His unique and expressive style was well-suited for the atmospheric depiction of Gothic horrors amid crumbling Victorian mansions in hellish landscapes populated by twisted characters, grotesque creatures and living corpses with rotting flesh. A trademark of his was a character with a thread of saliva visible in a horrified open mouth. As the lead artist for The Haunt of Fear, he brought to life the Old Witch, host of "The Witch's Cauldron" lead story, and he also did the cover for each issue.
After EC ceased publication in the mid-1950s, Ingels contributed to Classics Illustrated and took a teaching position with the Famous Artists correspondence school located in Westport, Connecticut. He left the Northeast and became an art instructor in Florida, refusing to acknowledge his horror comics until a few years before he died.