Carmine Michael Infantino was an American comics artist and editor, primarily for DC Comics, during the late 1950s and early 1960s period known as the Silver Age of Comic Books.
| FactSnippet No. 693,254 |
15 Facts About Carmine Infantino
2.
Carmine Infantino was inducted into comics' Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame in 2000.
| FactSnippet No. 693,255 |
3.
Carmine Infantino was born via midwife in his family's apartment in Brooklyn, New York City.
| FactSnippet No. 693,256 |
4.
Carmine Infantino's father, Pasquale "Patrick" Infantino, born in New York City, was originally a musician who played saxophone, clarinet, and violin, and had a band with composer Harry Warren.
| FactSnippet No. 693,257 |
6.
Carmine Infantino additionally became a regular artist of the Golden Age Green Lantern and the Justice Society of America.
| FactSnippet No. 693,259 |
7.
Carmine Infantino designed the now-classic red uniform with yellow detail, striving to keep the costume as streamlined as possible, and he drew on his design abilities to create a new visual language to depict the Flash's speed, using both vertical and horizontal motion lines to make the figure a red and yellow blur.
| FactSnippet No. 693,260 |
8.
Carmine Infantino continued to work for Schwartz in his other features and titles, most notably "Adam Strange" in Mystery in Space, succeeding the character's initial artist, Mike Sekowsky.
| FactSnippet No. 693,261 |
9.
Carmine Infantino started by hiring new talent, and promoting artists to editorial positions.
| FactSnippet No. 693,262 |
10.
In 1970, Carmine Infantino signed on Marvel Comics' star artist and storytelling collaborator Jack Kirby to a DC Comics contract.
| FactSnippet No. 693,263 |
11.
Carmine Infantino was made DC's publisher in early 1971, during a time of declining circulation for the company's comics, and he attempted a number of changes.
| FactSnippet No. 693,264 |
12.
Carmine Infantino later drew for a number of titles for Warren Publishing and Marvel, including the latter's Star Wars, Spider-Woman, and Nova.
| FactSnippet No. 693,265 |
13.
Carmine Infantino was one of the contributors to the DC Challenge limited series in 1986.
| FactSnippet No. 693,266 |
14.
Artist Nick Cardy commented on the popular but apocryphal anecdote, told by Julius Schwartz, about Carmine Infantino firing Cardy over not following a cover layout, only to rehire him moments later when Schwartz praised the errant cover art:.
| FactSnippet No. 693,267 |
15.
Carmine Infantino was the uncle of Massachusetts musician Jim Carmine Infantino, of the band Jim's Big Ego.
| FactSnippet No. 693,268 |