Мартин Ноделл: Комикстер және суретші өмірі

Comic creator

Martin Nodell (/n//oʊ/'/d//ɛ//l/; November 15, 1915 – December 9, 2006) was an American cartoonist and commercial artist, best known as the creator of the Golden Age superhero Green Lantern. Some of his work appeared under the pen name Mart Dellon.

Nodell left All American in 1947 and joined Timely Comics, the 1930s–40s forerunner of Marvel Comics, where he drew postwar stories of Captain America, the Human Torch and the Sub Mariner. His work there was rarely signed, making identification difficult, though comics historians have confirmed that Nodell drew two well known covers: The first issue of Marvel Tales, Timely's horror comics revamp of the company's flagship series Marvel Mystery Comics; and the penultimate issue (#74) of Captain America's book, which for its last two issues became the horror oriented Captain America's Weird Tales.

In 1950, Nodell left comics to work in advertising and later joined the Leo Burnett Agency in Chicago as an art director. In 1965, his design team there developed the long running flour company mascot the Pillsbury Doughboy. His only known comics work in the interim are penciling the story "The Glistening Death" in the Avon Comics one shot City of the Living Dead (1952), reprinted two decades later in the Skywald horror comics magazine Psycho #1 (Jan. 1971); and "Master of the Dead" in Avon's Eerie (1951 series) #14, reprinted in Skywald's Nightmare #1 (Dec. 1970). and a one page illustration of the Alan Scott Green Lantern and Superman in the one shot Superman: The Man of Steel Gallery #1 (Dec. 1995). At 80, Nodell penciled his final comic book work, the whimsical, 10 page Harlan Ellison adaptation "Gnomebody", scripted by John Ostrander and Ellison and inked by Jed Hotchkiss, in Dark Horse Comics' Harlan Ellison's Dream Corridor Quarterly #1 (Aug. 1996).

Nodell met his future wife, Carrie, at Coney Island in Brooklyn, New York, in September 1940. They were married December 1, 1941, and afterward moved to Huntington, Long Island, to move in with Nodell's brother Simon, an engineer at Republic Aviation. They lived there two years before moving back to Brooklyn, New York City. Nodell died December 9, 2006, in a nursing home in Muskego, Wisconsin, of natural causes, almost one month past his 91st birthday. They had two sons: Spencer, who lived in Waukesha, Wisconsin at the time of his father's death, and Mitchell.

Nodell received the Inkpot Award in 1986. In 2011, Nodell was nominated as a Judges' Choice for The Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame.