Carmine Infantino: R.I.P.


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One of the greatest pencillers of all time. Dead at 87.

Sovereign Court RPG Superstar 2009 Top 32, 2010 Top 8

Damn, lived a long full life at least.


Sad news.


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Sorry to hear this; Infantino, along with Aparo and Kane, was one of those guys that really sparked my interest in superhero comics. He was one of those artists that really developed a signature style that could be easily identified in comics.

Growing up, I was a huge Flash comics guy from the late Barry Allen era. Compared to the sort of "hyper-realism" that's more common now, his artwork was almost surreal or cartoony at times. It was style that worked well in the Flash comics; maybe not so much in other books he did. But my understanding was that he was incredibly fast and timely, so DC used his work a lot more than expected.

Scarab Sages RPG Superstar 2008 Top 4; Contributor; Publisher, Legendary Games

His style really launched the Silver Age at DC, a more cinematic, action-oriented style. One of the all-timers.


We have lost so many great ones recently. My condolences to his friends and family. He will be missed. R.I.P. Carmine Infantino.


I still remember those spiderwoman episodes I read when I was a child!
Oh,nostalgia!


I was just about to post this.

I own a LOT of those Marvel titles, mostly to fill in issues between other creators I enjoyed more...but I TRULY appreciate his work as DCs editorial director. Bringing in and promoting all those 'weird' titles and talent in the 70's is something to be proud of.

(lifted from AVClub.com)
But Infantino also brought new blood to the company, hiring writer Denny O’Neil and artist Neal Adams, who would go on to work together on the revitalized Detective Comics (starring the post-Adam West Batman) and Green Lantern/Green Arrow. And on his watch, DC published a large array of comics that, however badly they may have sold at the time, the company would still be bragging about (and republishing) decades later: Joe Kubert’s Tarzan, the most high-profile of several adaptations of the pulp adventures of Edgar Rice Burroughs; O’Neil and Michael Kaluta’s The Shadow; Sergio Aragones, Nick Cardy, and Sheldon Mayer’s Western hero Bat Lash; the earliest adventures of the Western antihero Jonah Hex; Archie Goodwin and Walt Simonson’s Detective Comics backup serial Manhunter; O’Neil and Howard Chaykin’s space adventure hero Ironwolf; Len Wein and Berni Wrightson’s Swamp Thing; and the humor comic Plop!

Now looking though the wiki page, I see he helped create Deadman. I love those issues of Strange Adventures.


Bummer!


My uncle had that comic with the Flash cover, and many others sporting Infantino's work. His time watching over DC was my favorite era for that company. Green Lantern/Green Arrow and the Flash were mostly what I read in those days.

I am mainly a Marvel guy, but with Superman turning 75 this month, I've been on a DC kick.

I'm glad he lived so long. Like Bill Gaines, he's one of those guys who was there when we needed him!


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mogwen wrote:

I still remember those spiderwoman episodes I read when I was a child!

Oh,nostalgia!

Glad you mentioned that - I remember those too! Infantino and Mark Gruenwald really gave her that off-beat superheroine vibe in the 70's and 80's.

drunken_nomad wrote:
but I TRULY appreciate his work as DCs editorial director.

Yea - I thought about that too, but didn't realize how many titles he helped develop at DC that fall into the offbeat (for DC) category. Simply awesome.

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