Elmer Wexler (August 14, 1918 - October 3, 2007) was an American illustrator and cartoonist. He is most famous for his work on comic strips and comic books in the 1940s, including being the inventor of the DC comic hero ''
Miss America'' in 1941. He is credited with being the first artist to draw a soap-opera style comic strip, ''Vic Jordan'', from 1941.
Later he made his living from illustration, including books, magazines and record covers. He has also been credited as a co-creator of the obscure comic book character ''
The Fighting Yank''. He is the illustrator on a number of books about sports.
Wexler's record cover work was mainly for
Grand Award Records
Grand Award Records was a pop, jazz, and gospel music record label founded by violinist and conductor Enoch Light in Harrison, New Jersey in 1955.
Light used the liner notes to describe how the records were made and to advertise their importanc ...
,
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''Hammond Organ Spectacular''
blog post at Unearthed in the Atomic Attic, May 1, 2011, retrieved July 2, 2012 for whom he did almost as many illustrations as did
Tracy Sugarman Tracy A. Sugarman (1921 – January 20, 2013) was an American illustrator. He illustrated hundreds of books and record covers in a career lasting over 50 years. He authored an annotated work on his sketches from World War II.
He was a naval ...
. These date from the late 1950s.
References
External links
Lambiek Comiclopedia biography about Elmer Wexler
American comics artists
1918 births
2007 deaths
20th-century American artists
Comic strip cartoonists
American illustrators
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