Joe Giella was an American comic book artist best known as a DC Comics inker during the late 1950s and 1960s period which historians and fans call the Silver Age of Comic Books.
10 Facts About Joe Giella
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Joe Giella studied at the Art Students League in Manhattan, alongside future comics professionals Mike Sekowsky and Joe Kubert, and took commercial art courses at Hunter College.
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Joe Giella's start was rocky, however; as a 2012 article related,.
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Joe Giella did similar duty on Human Torch, Sub-Mariner, and humor stories.
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Joe Giella assisted on such King Features syndicated comic strips as Flash Gordon, and The Phantom, on which he worked for 17 years.
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In 1991, Joe Giella succeeded Bill Ziegler as artist on the Mary Worth daily and Sunday newspaper strip.
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Joe Giella retired from Mary Worth in 2016, with his last strip appearing on July 23,2016.
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Joe Giella's son Frank is an art history and cartooning instructor at Forest Hills High School, and a colorist for the comic strip Mary Worth, which Giella penciled and inked until 2016.
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Joe Giella died on March 21,2023, at the age of 94.
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In 2017, Joe Giella was the Guest of Honor at the 2017 Inkwell Awards ceremony at HeroesCon in Charlotte, NC.