Edd Ashe
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| Born | August 11, 1908 Norwalk, Connecticut | ||
| Died | September 4, 1986 (aged 78) | ||
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| Spouse(s) | Beatrice Bishop (1941) | ||
Edd Ashe, born Edmund Marion Ashe Jr., (August 11, 1908 - September 4, 1986) was a creator of comic strips and a comic book artist in the United States.[1] He wrote the strip Guy Fortune that ran in the Pittsburgh Courier from August 19, 1950 until October 22, 1955. He also illustrated The American Weekly.[2]
He was born in Norwalk, Connecticut.[2] His father was an artist and head of Carnegie Tech's art department.[3]
He was a white Golden Age of Comic Books artist.[4] He and Nathaniel Nitkin created Bomber Burns.[5]
His second marriage was to Beatrice Bishop in 1941. She was the daughter of a pr9minent hotelier on Long Island and died February 8, 1983.[2]
Guy Fortune
The Guy Fortune comic strip was about a secret agent who was African American. It was pioneering.[6] A 1955 stip feature Fortune in Pakistan teaching a young prince baseball.[7]
References
- ↑ Congress, The Library of. "LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies (Library of Congress)". id.loc.gov.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Catalog". www.pulpartists.com.
- ↑ "Edd Ashe". lambiek.net.
- ↑ Jackson, Tim (April 21, 2016). "Pioneering Cartoonists of Color". Univ. Press of Mississippi – via Google Books.
- ↑ https://books.google.com/books?id=KqHJDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA263&dq=edd+ashe+non-black&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjo_er1voDvAhWkSzABHcu9AVYQ6AEwAXoECAgQAg#v=onepage&q=edd%20ashe%20non-black&f=false
- ↑ "Vintage Black Heroes - Guy Fortune | The Museum Of UnCut Funk". museumofuncutfunk.com.
- ↑ "1 Jan 1955, Page 31 - The Pittsburgh Courier at Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com.
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