Russ Manning
Russ Manning | |
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Tarzan comic strip Star Wars comic strip | |
Awards | Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame, 2006 |
Russell George Manning (January 5, 1929
Biography
Manning studied at the
for his military base newspaper.In 1953 he went to work for
From 1965 to 1969, Manning drew Gold Key's Tarzan series. During this time, he adapted ten of the first eleven Tarzan novels written by
Manning also drew the Korak stories in the first 11 issues of Gold Key's Korak comic (also written by Du Bois). These were reprinted by Dark Horse Comics in 2 hardcover archive collections.
From 1967 to 1972 he drew the Tarzan daily
Magnus, his and Gold Key's best-known heroic-adventure series, was set in the year 4000, which Manning depicted as clean, airy city scapes populated by shiny robots, handsome men, and beautiful women. In an era when many science fiction illustrations still showed interstellar spaceships with fins reminiscent of World War II V-2 rockets, Manning offered more exotic craft. His Magnus work was later collected by Dark Horse Comics in three hardcover "archive" editions using a different color palette. Dark Horse then reprinted them in three trade paperbacks.
His final major work was writing and drawing the Star Wars newspaper strip in 1979-80. These were collected by Dark Horse Comics as Classic Star Wars: The Early Adventures (
Russ Manning died of cancer on December 1, 1981, while still living in California where he was born. He was 52.
The
See also
- Russ Manning Award
References
- ^ a b Hillman, Bill & Sue-On. "Russ Manning Tribute I," Erbzine (vol. 830). Accessed November 8, 2008.
- ^ a b "United States Social Security Death Index," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/VMMT-NZN : accessed 28 Aug 2014), Russell Manning, Dec 1981; citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing).
- ^ Manning biography at Lambiek.net's Comiclopedia. Accessed November 8, 2008.
Further reading
Comics Feature #26, December 1983
External links
- Russ Manning at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original)
- Hillman, Bill & Sue-On. "Russ Manning Tribute I," Erbzine (vol. 830).
- Hillman, Bill. "Russ Speaks" (reprints of two 1970s newspaper profiles of Manning), Erbzine (vol. 837).
- Manning bio at Lambiek's Comiclopedia