Greg Irons
Greg Irons | |
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Born | Gregory Rodman Irons September 29, 1947 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
Died | November 14, 1984 Bangkok, Thailand | (aged 37)
Area(s) | Poster artist, underground cartoonist, animator, tattoo artist |
Notable works | Slow Death |
Collaborators | Tom Veitch |
Greg Irons (September 29, 1947 – November 14, 1984) was an American poster artist, underground cartoonist, animator and tattoo artist.[1]
Biography
Irons was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He moved to San Francisco, California, in 1967, where he soon found work designing posters for Bill Graham at The Fillmore Auditorium.
He worked on the film
In the mid-1970s he began book illustration work, mainly for Bellerophon Books. One of these was a coloring-book format illustration of
On November 14, 1984, while on a working vacation in Bangkok, Thailand, Irons was struck and killed by a bus driver.
The August 1985 issue of Swamp Thing, vol. 2, issue #39, written by Alan Moore, is dedicated to Greg Irons.[4]
References
- ISBN 9781560977544.
- ^ "Slow Death Artist Greg Irons dead", The Comics Journal #96 (March 1985), pp. 19-20.
- ISBN 978-0898440096.
- ^ Moore, Alan (August 1985). Swamp Thing. Vol. 2, #39. DC Comics. p. 23.