1. Louis Kenneth Fine was an American comic book artist known for his work during the 1940s Golden Age of comic books, where his draftsmanship became an influential model to a generation of fellow comics artists.
12 Facts About Lou Fine
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Lou Fine was born to a Jewish family in either the Manhattan or Brooklyn boroughs of New York City, the son of a house painter, Meyer, who was possibly a Russian immigrant.
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Fine's mother died while Fine was attending Cooper Union college, studying engineering.
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Lou Fine had an older brother, Sam, who died in October 2000, at age 86, and a sister.
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Either at about age two or in his early teens, Lou Fine's left leg became crippled by polio.
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Leyendecker, Lou Fine went on to study at Manhattan's Grand Central Art School and Brooklyn's Pratt Institute.
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Lou Fine, along with Plastic Man creator Jack Cole, was a ghost artist on Will Eisner's celebrated Sunday-supplement newspaper comic book The Spirit during Eisner's World War II military service, Lou Fine inking over Cole's pencil work.
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Some were reprinted in Quality's Police Comics and The Spirit comic book, where Lou Fine's work has appeared through 1949, five years after Lou Fine had left comics.
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Lou Fine is credited with being the first comics artist to draw a line of saliva running between the upper and lower teeth in a character's open mouth.
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Lou Fine had many accounts, but his two most enduring were the series he did for Philip Morris USA and the Sam Spade strip for Wildroot Cream-Oil.
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Lou Fine later drew the comic strips Taylor Woe, Adam Ames and Peter Scratch.
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Lou Fine worked on the strip Space Conquerors in the magazine Boys' Life from the late 1960s until his death.