Edward Summer is a true polymath. Over a forty year period he has been an award winning painter, motion picture director, screenwriter, internet publisher, magazine editor, journalist and science writer, comic book writer, novelist, book designer, actor, cinematographer, motion picture editor, documentary film maker, film festival founder, and educator.

Among his better known works are the ground-breaking collection of Carl Barks stories Uncle Scrooge McDuck: His Life and Times, the Dinosaur Interplanetary Gazette (one of the pioneering online magazines), the first motion picture based upon Robert E. Howard's Conan The Barbarian, the novel Teefr, and a prequel The Legend of Teddy Bear Bob. Carl Barks (March 27, 1901 – August 25, 2000) was a famous Disney Studio illustrator and comic book creator, who invented Duckburg and many of its inhabitants, such as Scrooge McDuck and the Beagle Boys. ... Jump to: navigation, search – The Nemedian Chronicles, as quoted in The Phoenix on the Sword (1932), by Robert E. Howard. ...

Early Work

Born in Buffalo, New York, Summer studied painting at the Albright Art Gallery, Albright Art School, and with the noted water-color painter Sandra Chessman. He was also acquainted from childhood with another noted water-colorist, Robert Blair. There are articles for several people named Robert Blair: Robert Blair (1699 - February 4, 1746) was a Scottish poet. ...

Charles Summer, his father, was an amateur photographer who owned a then uncommon Exacta single lense reflex camera. The world-famous photographer Milton Rogovin was a family friend and early on exposed him to fine-art photographs. The Exakta is a pioneer brand camera produced by the Ihagee Kamerawerk in Dresden, Germany, founded as the Industrie und Handels-Gesellschaft mbH in 1912. ...

At fifteen, Summer had a special one-man exhibit of his drawings in a group show at the Buffalo Museum of Science.

Motion Pictures

Encouraged by experimental film maker Peter Adair, Summer ultimately attended the first year of the New York University School of the Arts (then under the NYU School of Education and called the School of Television, Motion Pictures and Radio). Haig Manoogian, instrumental in starting the career of Martin Scorsese by producing the film "Whose That Knocking At My Door" headed the school and was one of the main instructors. Peter Adair was a filmmaker and artist, best known for his pioneering documentary, Word is Out. ... Martin Scorsese Martin Scorsese (pronounced as Scor-SEH-see) (born November 17, 1942 in Queens, New York, USA) is an American film director. ...

At NYU, Summer continued painting and studied with, among others, acclaimed photo-realist Audrey Flack. Harry Hurwitz, director of "The Projectionist" was also an instructor and personal friend.

His student film "Item 72-D, The Adventures of Spa and Fon" not only won multiple awards, but was shown worldwide at many film festivals. It was the first film shown at the now famous Film Forum movie theater in New York City when the Film Forum was only a tiny loft space on West 88th Street in Manhattan. Herve Villechaize, then unknown was one of the stars of "Item 72-D, The Adventures of Spa and Fon" Villechaize went on to fame in [[The Man With The Golden Gun}} and as a recurring character in the television show Fantasy Island. A co-writer of the film, John Byrum went on to write and direct numerous other films. Hervé Villechaise Hervé Villechaise (April 23, 1943 - September 4, 1993) was a famous French actor who was born in Paris and achieved world-wide recognition with his role as Tattoo in the television series Fantasy Island (1978-1984). ... Tattoo and Mr. ...

External Links

The Dinosaur Interplanetary Gazette

The Buffalo International Film Festival