Ric Estrada was a Cuban-American comics artist who worked for companies including the major American publisher DC Comics.
11 Facts About Ric Estrada
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Ric Estrada worked in comic strips, political cartoons, advertising, storyboarding, and commercial illustration.
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Ric Estrada made his first professional sale, an illustration used on the cover of the Cuban magazine Bohemia, at the age of 13.
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Ric Estrada there attended the New York Art Students League, New York University, and the School of Visual Arts.
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Ric Estrada drew for Dell Comics, Hillman Periodicals, St John Publications, and Ziff-Davis.
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Ric Estrada did political cartoons for the Spandauer Volksblatt in the morning and did storyboards for the advertising company Deutschen Documentar in the afternoons.
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Ric Estrada drew detective comics, romance comics, war comics and a few horror stories for DC.
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In 1976, Ric Estrada's work was in such high demand from DC that he illustrated the premiere issues of six separate titles that year: All Star Comics, Blitzkrieg, Freedom Fighters, Isis, Karate Kid, and Super Friends.
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That story came to the attention of Hugh W Pinnock, who was in charge of creating a comic-style adaptation of the New Testament for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and in 1980 Estrada drew all the pictures for that book.
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Ric Estrada drew the Flash Gordon syndicated newspaper comic strip in sporadic stints from the 1950s to the 1970s.
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Ric Estrada died May 1,2009, at 81, after a lengthy battle with prostate cancer.