17 Facts About Tom Sutton

Thomas F Sutton was an American comic book artist who sometimes used the pseudonyms Sean Todd and Dementia.

Tom Sutton is best known for his contributions to Marvel Comics and Warren Publishing's line of black-and-white horror-comics magazines, particularly as the first story-artist of the popular character Vampirella.

Tom Sutton was born and raised in North Adams, Massachusetts, where father Harry was a plumbing, heating and air conditioning shopkeeper, and a machinist and gunsmith for General Electric and others.

Tom Sutton had a half-sister "seven or eight years older than I am" from his widower father's first marriage.

Tom Sutton enlisted in the US Air Force after graduating from high school in 1955, and worked on art projects while stationed at Fort Francis E Warren, near Laramie, Wyoming.

Tom Sutton became an art director at a company called AVP, and was the animation director for Transradio Productions, among many other jobs that included graphics work on a Radio Shack catalog.

Tom Sutton married his first wife, Beverly, in the early 1960s and his two sons were born soon thereafter; the marriage lasted approximately five years.

Tom Sutton married second wife Donna and in 1970 they moved to Newburyport, Massachusetts.

Later Tom Sutton lived in Newburyport with his third wife, Charlotte, who ran a Montessori school for little people in the first floor of their Victorian house.

Tom Sutton didn't get many people who had done that.

Tom Sutton just reached over and he pulled off this huge pile of blank paper.

Tom Sutton soon developed a trademark frantic, cartoony style that, when juxtaposed on dramatic narratives, gave his work a vibrant, quirky dynamism.

Tom Sutton was not especially equipped to do superheroes, either by art style or temperament, once calling them "fascist".

For Skywald's short-lived line of color comics, Tom Sutton wrote and drew stories for the Western title Butch Cassidy and the horror title The Heap.

Tom Sutton drew Marvel's similar muck-monster Man-Thing as eight-page installments in the omnibus series Marvel Comics Presents during the late 1980s.

Late in life, Tom Sutton did commercial art for New England advertising agencies, and under his "Dementia" pseudonym, which he adopted in 1994, he drew for Fantagraphics Books' Eros Comix line of adult comics.

Tom Sutton was a painter who had gallery showings of his bar-scene canvases.