Al Williamson
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Eisner Award Hall of Fame (2000) Joe Sinnott Hall of Fame (2010)Inkwell Awards |
Alfonso Williamson
Born in New York City, he spent much of his early childhood in
In the 1960s, he gained recognition for continuing Raymond's illustrative tradition with his work on the Flash Gordon comic-book series, and was a seminal contributor to the Warren Publishing's black-and-white horror comics magazines Creepy and Eerie. Williamson spent most of the 1970s working on his own credited strip, another Raymond creation, Secret Agent X-9. The following decade, he became known for his work adapting Star Wars films to comic books and newspaper strips. From the mid-1980s to 2003, he was primarily active as an inker, mainly on Marvel Comics superhero titles starring such characters as Daredevil, Spider-Man, and Spider-Girl.
Williamson is known for his collaborations with a group of artists including Frank Frazetta, Roy Krenkel, Angelo Torres, and George Woodbridge, which was affectionately known as the "Fleagle Gang". Williamson has been cited as a stylistic influence on a number of younger artists, and encouraged many, helping such newcomers as Bernie Wrightson and Michael Kaluta enter the profession. He has won several industry awards, and six career-retrospective books about him have been published since 1998. Living in Pennsylvania with his wife Corina, Williamson retired in his seventies.
Williamson was inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2000.
Biography
Early life and career
Al Williamson was born in Manhattan, New York City, New York,[1] one of two children of Sally and Alfonso Williamson, who was of Scottish descent and a Colombian citizen. The family relocated to Bogotá, Colombia, when Al was two years old.[5] "My father was Colombian and my mother was American," Williamson said in 1997. "They met in the States, got married and went down there. I grew up down there so I learned both English and Spanish at the same time. It was comic books that taught me to read both languages."[6] At age nine, Williamson took an interest in comic strips via the Mexican magazine Paquin, which featured American strips as well as Underwater Empire by Argentine cartoonist Carlos Clemen. Later, Williamson was attracted to Alex Raymond's Flash Gordon strip after his mother took him to see the Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe movie serial.[7] While living in Bogotá he met future cartoonist Adolfo Buylla, who befriended him and gave him artistic advice.[8] At age 12, in 1943, Williamson moved with his mother to San Francisco, California; they later moved to New York.[5][9]
In the mid-1940s Williamson continued to pursue his interest in cartooning and began to take art classes with
Williamson's first professional work may have been helping Hogarth pencil some Tarzan Sunday pages in 1948,
...Hogarth got in touch with [Celardo], and the next thing you knew, he was penciling the Sunday page for him. He did it for quite some time and something must have happened ... but at that point I was going to the Hogarth school again in the evenings ... and he asked me again if I would like to give it a try, so I said OK. He gave me a page and he had already laid it out, so I just tightened it up. Then he gave me another page that I tightened up and he inked it. Then I said I'd like to try laying it out myself and asked if I could do that, and he said, 'Go ahead, Al,' and handed me the script. So I laid that page out on a sketchpad. He said fine and just made a couple of suggestions as to what I should do; then I just did it on the big Sunday page, and when I was through, he inked it and the other one I had done the same way, and that was it.[17]
During this period Williamson met his main stylistic influence, Raymond: "I had just turned 18. I had been in the business about six months or so. He gave me about two hours."[18]
1950s
From 1949 to 1951, Williamson worked on
In 1952, upon the suggestion of artists Wally Wood and
Williamson worked at EC through 1956 until the cancellation of most of the company's line. Williamson's EC art has been lauded for its illustrative flamboyance, evident in such stories as "I, Rocket", in Weird Fantasy #20 (Aug. 1953), co-penciled and co-inked with Frank Frazetta; and "50 Girls 50", in Weird Science #20 (Aug. 1953), co-inked by Williamson and Frazetta.[16][26] His final published EC story was the 10-page "A Question of Time", in Shock Illustrated #2 (Feb. 1956) with partial inking by Torres, who put his initials on the last page.[16] In the fall of 1956, writer Larry Ivie introduced Williamson to future comics writers-editor Archie Goodwin, with whom he would become friends and, later, a frequent collaborator. Williamson eventually helped Goodwin enter the comics field, having him script a Harvey Comics story, "The Hermit", penciled by Reed Crandall and inked by Williamson.[27]
From 1955 to 1957, Williamson produced over 400 pages of three-to-five-page stories for
From 1958 to 1959 Williamson worked for Harvey Comics collaborating with former EC artists Reed Crandall, Torres and Krenkel and inking the pencils of Jack Kirby (for Race to the Moon #2–3 and Blast-Off #1). On inking Kirby, Williamson relates: "I remember going up to Harvey and getting work there. They said, 'We haven't got any work for you, but we have some stories here that Jack penciled. Do you want to ink them?' I'd never really inked anybody else before, but I said, 'Sure,' because I looked at the stuff, and thought, I can follow this, it's all there. I inked it and they liked it, and they gave me three or four stories to do."[32]
Additionally, Williamson drew stories for Classics Illustrated (in collaboration with Crandall and Woodbridge); Canaveral Press's line of Edgar Rice Burroughs books (inked by Crandall);[33] Westerns for Dell Comics (including Gunsmoke #8–12) and Charlton Comics, including two complete issues of the Cheyenne Kid (#10–11) with Angelo Torres, and science-fiction stories for ACG, including "The Vortex", in Forbidden Worlds #69 (1958).[28] He also worked with former EC artist John Severin on the "American Eagle" feature in Prize Comics Western #109 and #113 (1955).
Williamson's work during this decade was his most prolific in terms of comic book work and has garnered considerable praise for its high quality.[34] He has been noted for his perfectionism and love for the medium.[35] Despite its high reputation, S.C. Ringgenberg felt that Williamson's artwork from this period could at times be uneven and uninspired.[36] Williamson was single during this period and, according to The Art of Al Williamson, had a bohemian and undisciplined lifestyle.[37]
1960s
In 1960, with little work to be found in the comic book field due to a downturn in the industry, he went to work as an assistant to
He returned to comics in 1965 doing one story each in Gold Key Comics' Ripley's Believe It or Not! #1 (June 1965), The Twilight Zone #12 (Aug. 1965), and Boris Karloff Tales of Mystery #11 (Sept. 1965), and helped launch Warren Publishing's black-and-white horror-comics magazines Creepy and Eerie with several stories in early issues, while contributing to Warren's war comics magazine Blazing Combat. He was instrumental in recruiting other former EC Comics artists as Frazetta, Krenkel, Torres, Crandall, and Evans, as well as artist Gray Morrow and writer-editor Archie Goodwin.[43]
In 1966, he drew the first issue (Sept. 1966) of a new
Williamson helped assemble the first major book on Alex Raymond's Flash Gordon, published by Nostalgia Press in 1967, and wrote the introduction.[47] In 1969, Wally Wood's alternative-press comic book witzend #1 published Williamson's "Savage World", a 1956 story originally drawn for a Buster Crabbe comic book that had been cancelled. With significant contributions by Frazetta, Krenkel, and Torres, the story is a prime sample of the "Fleagle Gang" style and has since been reprinted by Marvel Comics (in the black-and-white comics magazine Unknown Worlds of Science Fiction #1, January 1975), Pacific Comics and Kitchen Sink Press.[48] Wood would later write the script for a three-page story drawn by Williamson, "The Tube", in another alternative-press comic, publisher Flo Steinberg's Big Apple Comix (1975).
By the end of the decade, Williamson was beginning to encourage younger artists whom he would meet at comic book conventions, helping Bernie Wrightson to enter the comics profession.[49]
1970s
Williamson worked on Secret Agent Corrigan through the 1970s until he left the strip in 1980. The first Corrigan anthology was published in France in 1975, Le FBI joue et gagne, reprinting Williamson's first episode on the feature.[50] He returned to Warren Publishing in 1976 and again in 1979 to draw three additional stories in Creepy (#83, 86, 112). These were published in France in the collection Al Williamson: A la fin de l'envoi in 1981.[51]
He drew a few more stories for
1980s
After leaving the Secret Agent Corrigan daily strip, he illustrated the
A comic book adaptation of the Dino De Laurentiis' film, Flash Gordon, written by Bruce Jones and illustrated by Al Williamson, was released by Western Publishing in both hardcover and softcover formats to coincide with the film's release. A photograph of actor Sam J. Jones, who played Flash Gordon, was pasted into the original cover art. It was serialized in three issues of Whitman's Flash Gordon comic book, #31–33, March–May 1981. Alden McWilliams inked the backgrounds for the last 25 pages. According to Williamson, "It was the hardest job I ever had to do in my life."[61] He then began drawing the Star Wars comic strip in February 1981[62] following Alfredo Alcala's tenure, with Goodwin writing. He drew the daily and Sunday feature until March 11, 1984, when the strip was canceled.[63] Williamson's daily strips on this series were completely reprinted in Russ Cochran's three-volume slipcase edition in 1991.[64]
Returning to comic books full-time for the first time since 1959, Williamson began work for Pacific Comics, collaborating with writer Bruce Jones for the Alien Worlds title (#1, 4, 8), and "Cliff Hanger", a six-issue adventure-strip backup feature in the Somerset Holmes miniseries. For Marvel, he illustrated the Blade Runner and Return of the Jedi movie adaptations.[65] The two Archie Goodwin stories he illustrated for Epic Illustrated ("Relic" in issue #27, 1984; and "Out of Phase", in #34, 1986) have been considered to be some of his finest work,[66] and Williamson himself named "Relic" as one of his best works.[33] The letterer on all these projects was Ed King.[67] Williamson drew a short story for Timespirits #4 and the full issue of Star Wars #98.[16] For DC Comics, he penciled and inked an eight-page story by Elliot S. Maggin for Superman #400 (Oct. 1984)[68] and he inked Rick Veitch on the classic, oft reprinted Alan Moore Superman/Swamp Thing story "The Jungle Line" in DC Comics Presents #85 (Sept. 1985).[16]
Following the expiration of his contract on the Star Wars newspaper strip, Williamson found that the weight of doing both pencil and inks suddenly became stressful to him, drastically reducing his output.
1990s
Williamson provided the covers and additional artwork for
In 1995, Marvel released a two-part Flash Gordon miniseries written by Mark Schultz and drawn by Williamson, which was his last major work doing both pencils and inks. Also with Schultz, he illustrated the short story "One Last Job" for Dark Horse Presents #120 in 1997. In 1999, he drew the Flash Gordon character a final time when regular cartoonist Jim Keefe asked for his help on a Flash Gordon Sunday page.[72]
Later life and career
Since 1998, there have been six career retrospective books published (see "Further Reading" section). Williamson cooperated with their production, with the exception of the books from Pure Imagination. He was interviewed for the 2003 Frank Frazetta documentary Painting with Fire, along with fellow surviving "Fleagle Gang" members Angelo Torres and Nick Meglin.[73] In 2009, a Williamson-illustrated Sub-Mariner story written by Schultz and dedicated to Sub-Mariner creator Bill Everett was published.[74] The story itself was originally drawn ten years previously.[75] Williamson illustrated a "Xenozoic Tales" story written by Schultz that remains unpublished.[76]
Living in Pennsylvania with his wife Corina,[77] Williamson retired in his seventies[78] and died on June 12, 2010, in Upstate New York.[1] Some premature reports, based on unsubstantiated Twitter claims, erroneously gave June 13, 2010.[79][80]
Legacy
Williamson has been a stylistic influence on a number of younger artists such as
Awards
- 1966 National Cartoonists Society Award for Best Comic Book[90]
- 1966 Alley Award for Best Pencil Work[91]
- 1967 Alley Award for "Best Feature Story" (for "Lost Continent of Mongo" from Flash Gordon #4)[92]
- 1969 Nova Award for excellence in illustrative art.[93]
- 1984 Inkpot Award[94]
- 2010 Inkwell Awards Joe Sinnott Hall of Fame Award[95]
- 1988 Al Williamson, for Daredevil, Marvel Comics[96]
- 1989 Al Williamson, for Daredevil, Marvel Comics[97]
- 1990 Al Williamson, for Daredevil, Marvel Comics[98]
- 1991 Al Williamson, for Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser, Marvel Comics imprint Epic Comics[99]
- 1993 Al Williamson, for Spider-Man 2099, Marvel Comics[100]
- 1994 Al Williamson, for Spider-Man 2099, Marvel Comics[101]
- 1995 Al Williamson, for Spider-Man 2099, Marvel Comics[102]
- 1989 Nominee, Best Art Team, for Daredevil, Marvel Comics, with penciler John Romita Jr.[103]
- 1991 Winner, Best Inker[104]
- 1996 Nominee, Best Penciller/Inker for Flash Gordon Marvel Comics imprint Marvel Select[105]
- 1997 Winner, Best Inker, for The Amazing Spider-Man and Untold Tales of Spider-Man #17–18, Marvel Comics[106]
- 1998 Nominee, Hall of Fame[107]
- 1999 Nominee, Hall of Fame[108]
- 2000 Inductee, Hall of Fame (Voter's choice)[109][110]
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Further reading
- Ellison, Harlan, Bruce Jones, Mark Schultz, Archie Goodwin, Mark Wheatley, Al Williamson. Al Williamson Adventures (Insight Studios Group, 2003) ISBN 1-889317-17-9
- Schultz, Mark. Al Williamson's Flash Gordon: A Lifelong Vision of the Heroic (Flesk, 2009) ISBN 1-933865-13-X
- Spurlock, J. David (editor). The Al Williamson Sketchbook (ISBN 1-887591-02-8
- Theakston, Greg. Al Williamson – Forbidden Worlds (Pure Imagination, 2009) ISBN 1-56685-081-9
- Theakston, Greg. The Al Williamson Reader, Vol. 1 (Pure Imagination, 2008) ISBN 1-56685-037-1
- Williamson, Al, Frank Frazetta, Roy G. Krenkel, Angelo Torres, Al Feldstein, Otto Binder, Jack Oleck, Carl Wessler. 50 Girls 50 And Other Stories (Fantagraphics Books, 2013) ISBN 978-1-60699-577-8
External links
- Al Williamson at the Who's Who of American Comic Book Artists
- Cuthbert, Ray "The Quest for Al Williamson's Flash Gordon #1", Comicartville Library, 2002
- Mendez, Prof. A. E. "The Rules of Attraction: The Look of Love: The Rise and Fall of the Photo-Realistic Newspaper Strip, 1946–1970 – The Man Who Would Be King: Al Williamson and Secret Agent X-9". Archived from the original on July 20, 2007. Additionally,"The Rules of Attraction". Archived from the original on July 20, 2007. Retrieved April 19, 2009.
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- Al Williamson at Mike's Amazing World of Comics
- Al Williamson at the Unofficial Handbook of Marvel Comics Creators