Pat Boyette
| Pat Boyette | |
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| Born | Aaron P. Boyette July 23, 1923 Peacemaker |
| Awards | Inkpot Award (1980)[1] |
Aaron P. "Pat" Boyette (July 27, 1923 – January 14, 2000)
Biography
Broadcast career
Born and raised in
Films
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Comics
While continuing to work in television, he wrote and drew the short-lived Western comic strip Captain Flame for a syndicate owned by Charlie Plumm. He returned to comics after first leaving broadcasting and spending most of the 1960s shooting movies in San Antonio.[4]
Charlton
Turning to comic books, Boyette began a two-decade stint as a freelance artist for the Derby, Connecticut-based, low-budget Charlton Comics. His first known work for the company is the nine-page story "'Spacious' Rooms for Rent" in the supernatural-suspense anthology Shadows from Beyond #50 (Oct. 1966). The Grand Comics Database also tentatively identifies an additional nine-page story that issue, "Reprieve!", as being penciled by Boyette.
On his next assignment, Boyette co-created with staff writer
Boyette drew, and often wrote, hundreds of stories for Charlton through to at least 1976, for such supernatural series as Ghost Manor, Ghostly Tales, and The Many Ghosts of Doctor Graves; science fiction series like Outer Space, Strange Suspense Stories,
Space: 1999 and Space Adventures; Western series such as
Other comics work
For a brief period in 1968, Boyette drew issues of the DC Comics aviator series Blackhawk. That same year, his friend and Charlton colleague Rocke Mastroserio helped Boyette join the stable of artists freelancing for Warren Publishing's black-and-white horror-comics magazines, initially having him ghost-pencil, uncredited, "The Rescue of the Morning Maid" in Creepy #18 (Jan. 1968), which credited artist Mastroserio inked.[7] Boyette would go on to do credited work for such other Warren titles as Eerie occasionally through 1970[8] before making Charlton his base. In the mid-1970s, he drew the feature "The Tarantula" in Atlas Comics' Weird Suspense.[8]
Boyette's other comic work includes a
His last known comics work was penciling and inking the three-page story "The Head of Joaquin Murieta" in The Big Book of the Weird Wild West (Aug. 1998), one of
Death
Boyette died in Fort Worth, Texas, of cancer of the esophagus. He was predeceased by his wife, Betty or Bette (sources differ). The couple had a daughter, Melissa.[4]
References
- ^ Inkpot Award
- ^ Aaron P. Boyette at the United States Social Security Death Index via FamilySearch.org. Archived 2015-07-21 at the Wayback Machine from the original on July 19, 2015.
- ^ Lambiek Comiclopedia. Archived 2012-01-31 at the Wayback MachineOctober 18, 2011.
- ^ a b c d e "Obituary: Pat Boyette 1923-2000". ComicsReporter.com. December 31, 2000. Archived from the original on March 1, 2005. Retrieved May 18, 2012.
- ^ See the Internet Movie Database article on "The Dungeon of Harrow".
- ^ The Peacemaker at Don Markstein's Toonopedia. Archived 2011-10-25 at WebCite October 25, 2011.
- ^ Arndt, Richard J. "The Warren Magazines" (2005 version with five interviews). Archived 2011-07-10 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Pat Boyette at the Grand Comics Database.
External links
- Pat Boyette at IMDb
- Mangus, Don (2003). "A Tribute to Pat Boyette". Comicartville.com. Archived from the original on May 19, 2011. Retrieved June 13, 2007.
- ISBN 1-893905-35-7), "Pat Boyette", pp. 126+
- Schenk, Ramon (ed.). "Charlton Personnel". Archived from the original on March 5, 2008. Retrieved June 6, 2011. Additional WebCitation archive June 15, 2010.
- Cooke, Jon B., Jon; Irving, Christopher (August 2000). "The Charlton Empire: A Brief History of the Derby, Connecticut Publisher". Comic Book Artist (#9). Archived from the original on May 19, 2011.
- Baumann, Marty. "Pat Boyette's Curious Course into Comics History" at the Wayback Machine (archived February 25, 2008), IComics.com, June 10, 1998. Original site
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