Elmer Wexler
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Elmer Wexler is an 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 (DC Comics) in 1941. He is credited with being the first artist to draw a soap-opera style comic strip - Vic Jordan from 1941 (reference: The Look of Love web site). Later he made his living from illustration, including books, magazines and record covers. He is the illustrator on a number of books about sports.
Wexler's record cover work was mainly for Grand Award records, for whom he did almost as many illustrations as did Tracy Sugarman. These date from the late 1950s.
[edit] References
- Spalding Book of Rules (ISBN: 1570281491) Bing Broido and Elmer Wexler. NY: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary Books, 1998. Numerous other editions exist.
- More Instant Tennis Lessons (ISBN: 0914178709) Lamarche, Robert J. illus by Elmer Wexler. NY: Simon & Schuster, 1984.
- The Complete Racquet Sports Player (ISBN: 0671247409) Fitzgibbon, Herbert S. II; Bairstow, Jeffrey N. illus by Elmer Wexler. NY: Simon & Schuster, 1983.
[edit] External links
- The Look of Love: The Rise and Fall of the Photo-Realistic Newspaper Strip, 1946-1970
