1. Ramona Dom Fradon was an American comics artist known for her work illustrating Aquaman and Brenda Starr, Reporter, and co-creating the superhero Metamorpho.
15 Facts About Ramona Fradon
1. 2.
Ramona Fradon's career began in 1950 and lasted until her retirement in January 2024.
3.
Ramona Fradon's father was Armenian and her mother was Swiss.
4.
Ramona Fradon's brother worked as a technician for the Air Corps overseas and eventually died of alcoholism.
5.
Ramona Fradon never read comic books growing up but she had a love for newspaper strips.
6.
Ramona Fradon's father was the one that encouraged her to go to art school.
7.
Ramona Fradon broke into the industry just after graduating from the Parsons School of Design.
8.
Ramona Fradon landed her first assignment on the DC Comics with work on Shining Knight.
9.
Ramona Fradon drew the characters to try-out appearances in The Brave and the Bold and the first four issues of the eponymous series and returned briefly to design a few covers for the title.
10.
Kashdan, Haney, and Ramona Fradon worked together to create Metamorpho's look:.
11.
From 1965 to 1972, Ramona Fradon left comics to raise her daughter.
12.
Ramona Fradon worked for Marvel Comics during this period, but left after only two assignments: a fill-in issue of Fantastic Four and the never-published fifth issue of The Cat.
13.
In 1980, Dale Messick retired from drawing the newspaper strip Brenda Starr, Reporter, and Ramona Fradon became the artist for it until her own retirement in 1995.
14.
Ramona Fradon went back to college in 1980 at New York University where she studied psychology and ancient religions.
15.
Ramona Fradon was inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2006.