 Airbrush illustration by Richard Bassford Richard Bassford is an American illustrator who has worked in both advertising and comic books.
A native New Yorker, Bassford was born in Manhattan in 1936 where he lived until the age of three. He grew up in Queens, living first in Maspeth and then Corona and Whitestone. After his marriage in 1961, he lived in Flushing, Queens, until he moved alongside the Hudson River near Cold Spring, New York, in 1975. Cold Spring, or Cold Spring-on-Hudson, is a village located in the Town of Philipstown in Putnam County, New York. ...
Bassford entered the commercial art field in the early 1950s with packaging art for toy boxes and cartoons for nudist magazines. His pen-and-ink illustrations were published in the magazine Amateur Art & Camera in 1954. Bassford's first work in comics came in 1957 with "What Happened on the Mountain!" for Atlas Comics' World of Mystery. This story was later reprinted in Atlas' World of Fantasy 13 (August, 1958). Marvel Comics NYSE: MVL, (AKA Marvel Entertainment Group, Marvel Characters, Inc. ...
At the Wally Wood Studio, Bassford was an artist on Tower's T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents almost from the start. Beginning with the second issue, he assisted Wood on the penciling of "Dynamo Battles Dynavac" (later reprinted in Tower's The Terrific Trio paperback). Bassford, Wood and Dan Adkins teamed on The Munsters, a comic book adaptation of the 1964-66 CBS television series. When Dennis Beaulieu interviewed Bassford about Wally Wood and Good Girl Art in issue 40 (Spring, 1996) of CFA-APA, the publication of the Comic & Fantasy Art Amateur Press Association, the educational aspect of the Wally Wood Studio was noted: "His later black-and-white work using Craftint doubletone board was truly amazing. I learned to use the valuable tones available with Zip-a-Tone Benday shading sheets simply by studying Woody's application." Wallace Wally Wood (June 17, 1927–November 2, 1981), was an imaginative American writer-illustrator who freelanced to a wide variety of markets but is best known for his work in EC Comics and Mad. ...
T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents is a team of comic book superheroes originally published by Tower Comics in the 1960s. ...
Dan Adkins, born 1937 in East Liverpool, Ohio, United States, is a prolific American illustrator who worked mainly for comic books and science fiction magazines. ...
Cast of The Munsters (1965). ...
Wallace Wally Wood (June 17, 1927–November 2, 1981), was an imaginative American writer-illustrator who freelanced to a wide variety of markets but is best known for his work in EC Comics and Mad. ...
Good girl art, aka GGA, is a term first coined by comic book dealers who inserted it in their sale lists to call attention to covers and panels showing sexy women in comics from Fiction House and other publishers. ...
After James Warren recruited Bassford for Warren Publishing in the early 1970s, beginning with an illustration in Vampirella 11 (May, 1971), he contributed to both Creepy and Eerie. For Creepy 39 he drew "The Dragon Prow" from a Steve Skeates script, and in issue 41, he executed "The Hangman of London" for "Creepy's Loathsome Lore." For Eerie 39, he illustrated Doug Moench's "The Mysterious Men in Black!" for "Eerie's Monster Gallery." Warren Publishing was a publication company better known for the Warren adult comic magazines which were the major black and white horror magazines from the 1960s through the 1970s. ...
Vampirella is a comic book vampire heroine from the planet Drakulon created by Forrest J. Ackerman and fleshed-out by Archie Goodwin. ...
Eerie, Indiana is the name of a television show that started in 1991 and ended in 1992. ...
Eerie, Indiana is the name of a television show that started in 1991 and ended in 1992. ...
Doug Moench, born February 23, 1948 in Chicago, Illinois, is a comic book writer. ...
His work as an illustrator spans a wide range of subjects from science fiction and fantasy interiors to color cartoons. International Masters Publishers (Stamford, Connecticut) produces informational cards on a numerous topics -- gardening, health, home decorating, home repairs, physical fitness, sewing, sports and recipes. Bassford airbrushed illustrations for IMP's military aircraft series, and he also drew mermaids and creatures for their Myths and Monsters.
Other Bassford illustrations were published in a variety of magazines, including Screw, Bill Pearson's Sata and two stories for Fantastic: "The Forest of Unreason" by Robert F. Young (July, 1961) and "The Trekkers" by Daniel F. Galouye (September, 1961). Bill Pearson (born 1938 in Belle Fourche, South Dakota) is an American comic book writer, artist, editor and letterer. ...
The client list for Bassford's advertising art ranges from Disney and General Electric to IBM, Nestle, People's Bank and Waldenbooks. Over decades, he continued to do cartoons and illustrations for corporate audio-visual advertising art presentations, such as a slide show of 79 cartoons for GE Lighting and 36 cartoons for a People's Bank promotion.
He returned to comics in 1986 when he teamed with Bill Pearson on the story "Daddy's Little Girl" for Lurid Tales, published by Eros Comix, an imprint of Fantagraphics Books. In 2003, he was a contributor of both text and art to Bhob Stewart's Against the Grain: Mad Artist Wallace Wood, and his T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents pages were recently reprinted in the hardback T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents Archive series (2003-2005). Eros Comix. ...
Fantagraphics Books is an American publisher of alternative comics, underground comics, classic comic strip anthologies, magazines, and graphic novels located in the Maple Leaf neighborhood of Seattle, Washington. ...
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