Nicola Cuti, known as Nick Cuti, was an American artist and comic book writer-editor, science-fiction novelist; he was the co-creator of E-Man and Moonchild, Captain Cosmos, and Starflake the Cosmic Sprite.
28 Facts About Nick Cuti
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Nick Cuti worked as an animation background designer, magazine illustrator and screenwriter.
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Nicola Cuti was born on October 29,1944, in Brooklyn, New York, the first of two sons of Alphonso Gitano Cuti, a darkroom technician, and Laura Antoinette Sica, a housewife.
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Nick Cuti's grandparents had emigrated from Italy in the 1930s to make a home in America.
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Nick Cuti's brother, Emil, was a medical technician and later sold medical supplies to hospitals.
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Nick Cuti served in the United States Air Force as an Air Policeman from 1966 to 1972, stationed at Toul Rossieres Air Base, France; Cigli, Turkey; and Bangor, Maine.
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Nick Cuti was then published as a three issue miniseries, under the name Moonie, Moonchild the Starbabe, by MU Press with covers, writing, editing, pencils by Cuti and inks and lettering by Dave Simons.
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Nick Cuti had long admired the work of comic artist Wally Wood and asked if Wood would look at his portfolio.
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Nick Cuti did a single-page comic strip featuring Moonchild but it was never published in Wood's magazine Witzend; however, Nick Cuti eventually became Wood's studio assistant at the Wood Studio in Valley Stream, Long Island.
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Nick Cuti worked on the strips Cannon and Sally Forth for Wood.
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When Charlton Comics was seeking an assistant editor, Nick Cuti was interviewed by the new editor, George Wildman, and was hired.
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Nick Cuti worked for Charlton for four years and worked as assistant editor for Louise Simonson at Warren publishing and then as assistant editor to Len Wein at DC Comics.
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Excited at the prospect of working in the animation field, Nick Cuti moved his wife, Charlene, and daughter, Jaymee Rose, to California.
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Nick Cuti moved to Florida where he began writing and shooting indie movies for Creature Productions and then for his own company Ni-Cola Entertainment LLC His big dream was to produce a movie based on his character Moonie, but he knew it would take a fortune to do Moonie properly and so he shelved the idea.
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On September 12,2012, Nick Cuti began shooting the first episode of a three-part movie entitled Moonie and the Spider Queen, Episode One.
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In 2018, Nick Cuti sold the Moonchild franchise to Nakoma DeMitro.
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Nick Cuti began turning out scripts for Charlton's horror and fantasy titles, working with artists such as Steve Ditko, Don Newton, Wayne Howard and Tom Sutton.
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Nick Cuti recruited younger artists such as John Byrne and Mike Zeck, who began freelancing for Charlton and illustrated some of Cuti's stories.
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In less than three years, Nick Cuti produced well over 200 story scripts and text features for Charlton.
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Nick Cuti left Charlton in 1976 and went back to work for Warren, producing more than 100 story scripts for Warren's horror and fantasy magazines, until that company's demise in the early 1980s.
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Nick Cuti developed a realistic scratchboard style in contrast to his inked cartoon style and began selling illustrations to mainstream magazines such as Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, Analog, Amazing Stories and Heavy Metal.
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Nick Cuti scripted the final two Creeper back-up stories that appeared in The Flash.
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Nick Cuti moved to California in 1986 to begin work for animated TV series, producing background and prop designs for a dozen different studios, including Disney, Sony Pictures and Universal Studios.
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Nick Cuti wrote and illustrated text novels with his character "Moonie" as the heroine, Moonie and the Spider Queen, Moonie in the Slave Market of Opuul, Moonie in Too Many Moons and Moonie Moonie Goes to War.
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Nick Cuti wrote seven Starflake novels including, Starflake rides with the Galactic Bikers, Starflake hunts the Power Beast, and Starflake picks the Junkyard Planet.
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Nick Cuti was working on a young adult series of Starflake titled Starflake, Deep Space Ranger.
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Nick Cuti was twice awarded Warren's Ray Bradbury Award for writing.
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In 2009, Nick Cuti was awarded the Inkpot Award for career achievement and was given the award at the San Diego Comic-Con International.