Ernest C Schroeder was an American comic book artist, a commercial illustrator, and a sculptor, best known for drawing and co-writing Hillman Periodicals' influential muck-monster the Heap from 1949 to 1953.
13 Facts About Ernie Schroeder
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Griffith film The Birth of a Nation, made a fortune with a New York City silver-polish company called Noxon, and sold Ford trucks in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, where Ernie Schroeder was born, before leaving the family when Ernie Schroeder was very young.
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Ernie Schroeder later studied under George Bridgman and George Grosz at the Art Students League, in Manhattan.
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Ernie Schroeder, who had four children by then, was discharged from the service.
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From 1946 to 1949, Ernie Schroeder drew and occasionally wrote for Parents Magazine Press' non-fiction history series True Comics.
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Ernie Schroeder then began a long stint at Hillman Periodicals, penciling and inking the adventures of aviator hero Airboy in Airboy Comics, from vol.
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Ernie Schroeder's spelling was atrocious and we had to straighten out some of his sentence structures, but he was very imaginative.
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Ernie Schroeder was just natively bright, and was a marvelous conceptualist.
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When Hillman Periodicals ceased its comic-book line in 1953, Ernie Schroeder drew the single issue of Toby Press' medieval-adventure comic The Black Knight, and contributed to the company's anthology comic Tales of Horror.
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Ernie Schroeder did some work the following year for Prize Comics' Black Magic, under the celebrated writer-artist publishing team of Joe Simon and Jack Kirby.
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Ernie Schroeder said in his 2004 interview that in the early 1960s, he followed an uncle into a boat-building business in the Sheepshead Bay section of Brooklyn, working at this for approximately 10 years.
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Ernie Schroeder sculpted a bronze fountain in the public square of his town.
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Ernie Schroeder was living in Brevard County, Florida, at the time of his death on September 20,2006.