1. Richard Sala was an American cartoonist, illustrator, and comic book creator with a unique expressionistic style whose books often combined elements of mystery, horror and whimsy.
11 Facts About Richard Sala
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Richard Sala spent his childhood in West Chicago, Illinois, and his teenage years in Scottsdale, Arizona.
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In interviews, Sala has mentioned the influence of his childhood years on his work, particularly his visits to museums and antique shops.
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Richard Sala has stated that his love of reading and his interest in comic books and horror films helped him deal with real-life fears.
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Richard Sala attended college as an art major, finally earning a Master of Fine Arts degree in painting from Mills College.
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Richard Sala then worked as a freelance illustrator, something he had begun doing while in college, and a cartoonist, publishing his first comic book, Night Drive, in 1984.
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Richard Sala has continued to be a prolific illustrator and comic book artist.
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Richard Sala has worked on projects with Lemony Snicket, Steve Niles, and The Residents, and illustrated Doctor Sax and The Great World Snake, a script written in the 1960s by Jack Kerouac, which, like Richard Sala's own work, makes use of pulp genre conventions such as vampires and shadowy avengers.
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In 2014, Richard Sala began writing and drawing a webcomic entitled Super-Enigmatix, which follows the investigation into a sinister super-criminal.
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In 2016, Richard Sala began a second webcomic, The Bloody Cardinal, about a mystery-shrouded super-criminal.
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Richard Sala died on May 7,2020, at the age of 65 of a heart attack.