Frederick B Guardineer was an American illustrator and comic book writer-artist best known for his work in the 1930s and 1940s during what historians and fans call the Golden Age of Comic Books, and for his 1950s art on the Western comic-book series The Durango Kid.
11 Facts About Fred Guardineer
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Fred Guardineer acquired a fine arts degree in 1935, then moved to New York City, where he drew for pulp magazines.
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Fred Guardineer was one of the artists on two features handled previously by Creig Flessel in More Fun Comics: "Pep Morgan" and, in Detective Comics, "Speed Saunders, Ace Investigator".
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Fred Guardineer married Ruth Ball in 1938 and bought a home in Long Island, New York the following year.
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Fred Guardineer followed Sullivan to the editor's next venture, the comic-book company Magazine Enterprises, which Sullivan founded.
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In 1955, Fred Guardineer retired from comics and worked 20 years with the US Postal Service, and during this time did wildlife illustrations for publications including The Long Island Fisherman.
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Fred Guardineer was a member of the Outdoor Writers Association of America.
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Fred Guardineer's style was almost fully formed from the start.
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Fred Guardineer seems always to have thought in terms of the entire page, never the individual panel.
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Each of his pages is a thoughtfully designed whole, giving the impression sometimes that Fred Guardineer is arranging a series of similar snapshots into an attractive overall pattern, a personal design that will both tell the story clearly and be pleasing to the eye.
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One source says Fred Guardineer moved to San Ramon, California, where he died in 2002, though the Social Security Death Index gives his last place of residence as Babylon, New York in Suffolk County, Long Island.