Creig Valentine Flessel was an American comic book artist and an illustrator and cartoonist for magazines ranging from Boys' Life to Playboy.
14 Facts About Creig Flessel
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The son of Frank John Flessel, a blacksmith, and his wife Ida Hawkins Bunce, Flessel was born in Huntington, Long Island, New York.
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Creig Flessel was the youngest of two boys and two girls, with siblings Frank Bunce Flessel, Laura E Flessel, and Elizabeth Flessel.
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Creig Flessel graduated high school in 1930 then attended Grand Central Art School, at Grand Central Terminal in Manhattan, working as a door monitor in exchange for art lessons from instructors including the painter Harvey Dunn.
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Creig Flessel studied there for two years, with cartoonist Charles Addams a classmate and casual acquaintance.
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Creig Flessel broke into comics after answering an ad in The New York Times by Major Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson, whose National Allied Publications would eventually become DC Comics, and began freelancing there.
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In 1936, Flessel applied for a position with the advertising agency Johnstone and Cushing, and the firm, feeling he needed more experience, recommended him as an assistant to cartoonist John H Striebel on the newspaper comic strip Dixie Dugan.
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Creig Flessel assisted Streibel with advertising art featuring the humorous radio program characters Vic and Sade, who appeared in Farina Wheat cereal print ads.
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Creig Flessel, who drew many early adventures of the Golden Age Sandman and is closely associated with that character, has sometimes been credited as the character's co-creator.
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In 1943, when Sullivan formed his own comic book publishing company, Magazine Enterprises, Creig Flessel signed on as associate editor.
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Creig Flessel drew illustrations for several issues of the pulp magazine Clues Detective Stories in 1939 and 1940.
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Creig Flessel continued to draw comics, often uncredited, through the 1950s, including Superboy stories in both that character's namesake title and in Adventure Comics; and anthological mystery and suspense tales in American Comics Group Adventures into the Unknown.
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In 1993, Creig Flessel donated the original art for 2,677 strips to the Ohio State University Cartoon, Graphic and Photographic Arts Research Library.
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Creig Flessel suffered a stroke and shortly afterward died at his home in Mill Valley, California, on July 17,2008.