1. Reed Leonard Crandall was an American illustrator and penciller of comic books and magazines.
12 Facts About Reed Crandall
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Reed Crandall was best known for the 1940s Quality Comics' Blackhawk and for stories in EC Comics during the 1950s.
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Reed Crandall was born in Winslow, Indiana, the son of Rayburn Crandall and wife.
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Reed Crandall graduated from Newton High School in Newton, Kansas, in 1935, and then attended the Cleveland School of Art in Cleveland, Ohio, on a scholarship.
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Reed Crandall's father died in the spring of Crandall's freshman year at art school, which Crandall left temporarily to return to Kansas.
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Reed Crandall went on to become a mainstay of EC Comics, whose line of hit horror and science fiction titles would become as influential to future generations of comics creators as they were controversial in their own time due to their often graphic nature and mature themes.
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Reed Crandall illustrated many covers and countless stories for Treasure Chest through 1972.
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Reed Crandall, who had left New York City in the 1960s in order to care for his ailing mother in Wichita, Kansas, had developed alcoholism.
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Reed Crandall married artist Martha Hamilton, and they had two children.
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Reed Crandall was inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2009.
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Reed Crandall is referenced in Michael Chabon's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay.
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In 2023, Reed Crandall was posthumously awarded the Inkwell Awards SASRA.