Happy 78th Birthday, Frank Springer!
Today is Frank Springer’s 78th birthday.
The Maine based American comics artist is apparently still at it, but Frank is most famous for drawing DC’s The Secret Six and Marvel Comics’ Dazzler and Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. In addition, he was also responsible (along with National Lampoon / Saturday Night Live writer Michael O’Donoghue) for one of the first risque, adults-only graphic novels, The Adventures of Phoebe Zeit-Geist. What with Ms. Phoebe finding herself in brutal, not light nor playful bondage situations, Springer may have been one of the first to bring the whole cartoon fetish/borderline porn trend to the intelligencia in the pages of The Evergreen Review.
With one thing leading to the next, we might even want to blame him for Hentai.
Didn't much care for his work on "Fury", and the "Secret Six" art i recall seems to be by Sparling…
December 6 is also Robin Riggs' 46th, and Leonard Kirk's 41st, and Paul Jenkins' 42nd. Lots of comics folk born on the day.
I mix up Springer, Brunner & Robbins.
Anyone have a URL for a site with images of the paintings??