Joseph Leonard Sinnott was an American comic book artist.
19 Facts About Joe Sinnott
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Joseph Leonard Joe Sinnott' was born October 16,1926, in Saugerties, New York.
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Joe Sinnott grew up in a boarding house that catered primarily to schoolteachers, some of whom inspired in the young Sinnott a love of drawing.
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Joe Sinnott attended the schools St Mary of the Snow and Saugerties High School.
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Cartoonists and Illustrators School instructor Tom Gill asked Joe Sinnott to be his assistant on Gill's freelance comics work.
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Joe Sinnott lived in New York City for three years while attending art school, living near Broadway and West 74th Street on Manhattan's Upper West Side, and then returned to his hometown of Saugerties, New York, where he spent his life.
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Joe Sinnott began doing such commercial art as billboards and record covers, ghosting for some DC Comics artists, and a job for Classics Illustrated comics.
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Former EC Comics artist Jack Kamen by this time was the art director of Harwyn Publishing's 12-volume, 1958 Harwyn Picture Encyclopedia for children, and had Joe Sinnott join a roster of contributors that included such notable EC artists as Reed Crandall, Bill Elder, George Evans, Angelo Torres and Wally Wood.
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Joe Sinnott began a long association with publisher George Pflaum's Treasure Chest, a Catholic-oriented comic book distributed in parochial schools.
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Joe Sinnott began a stint with the low-budget Charlton Comics, teamed as penciler with inker Vince Colletta on several romance-comics stories in series including First Kiss, Just Married, Romantic Secrets, Sweethearts and Teen-Age Love that he would do through 1963.
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Joe Sinnott in 1992 believed his first Kirby collaboration was a Western story titled "Outlaw Man from Fargo", but nothing approximating that appears in standard databases.
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Joe Sinnott explained his not remaining on The Fantastic Four after his single early issue:.
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Joe Sinnott was a master craftsman, fiercely proud of the effort and meticulous detail he put into his work.
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That slick, stylized layer of India ink that Joe Sinnott painted over Kirby's pencils finished Jack's work in a way that no other inker ever would.
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Joe Sinnott retired from comic books in 1992 to concentrate on inking The Amazing Spider-Man Sunday strip, and to do recreations of comics covers and commissioned artwork.
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Joe Sinnott continued to contribute sporadically to Marvel, and for Captain America vol.
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Joe Sinnott retired from the Amazing Spider-Man strip in March 2019, at age 92.
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Joe Sinnott enjoyed life and was drawing up until the end.
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Joe Sinnott is named the No 1 inker of American comics by historians at the Chicago, Illinois, retailer Atlas Comics, on its list of the medium's top 20.