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EspañolJERRY ROBINSON
''For the football player, see Jerry Robinson (football player).''
'Jerry Robinson' (born January 1, 1922 in Trenton, New Jersey) is an American comic book artist best known for his work on the Batman line of comics during the 1940s.
Jerry Robinson was a journalism student at Columbia University in Manhattan when he began working for writer-artist Bob Kane in 1939.[1] Kane, with artist Bill Finger, had shortly before created the character Batman for National Comics, the future DC Comics. Robinson rented a room from a family in The Bronx near Kane's family's Grand Concourse apartment, where Kane used his bedroom as an art studio.1 He started as a letterer and a background inker, shortly graduating to inking secondary figures.1 Within a year, he became Batman's primariy inker, with George Roussos inking backgrounds. Batman quickly became a hit character, and Kane rented space for Robinson and Roussos in Times Square's Times Tower.1
Approximately a year and a half after being hired by Kane, National Comics hired Robinson and Finger away from Kane, making them company staffers.1 Robinson recalled working in the bullpen at the company's 480 Lexington Avenue office, alongside Superman creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, Jack Kirby, Fred Ray, and Mort Meskin, "who was one of my best friends, who I brought up from [comics publisher] MLJ."1
By early 1940, Kane, partly inspired by the Junior character from the ''Dick Tracy'' comic strip, and Finger discussed adding a sidekick. Robinson suggested the name "Robin," after Robin Hood books he had read during boyhood, saying in a 2005 interview he was inspired by one book's N.C. Wyeth illustrations.1 The new character, orphaned circus performer named Dick Grayson, came to live with Bruce Wayne as his young ward in ''Detective Comics'' #38 (April 1940) and would inspire many similar sidekicks throughout the Golden Age of comic books.
Batman's archnemesis the Joker was introduced near that same time, in ''Batman'' #1 (Spring 1940). Credit for that character's creation is disputed. Robinson has said he created the character.1 Kane's position is that
Robinson, whose original Joker playing card was on public display in the exhibition "Masters of American Comics" at the Jewish Museum in New York City, New York, from Sept. 16, 2006 to Jan. 28, 2007, and the William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum in Atlanta, Georgia from Oct. 24, 2004 to Aug. 28, 2005, has countered that:
In 1943, when Kane left the Batman comic books to focus on penciling the daily ''Batman'' newspaper comic strip, Robinson took over the full penciling, along with others such as Dick Sprang. As was customary of the time, only Kane's name appeared on the strip.
Robinson went on to work on numerous other characters and for several publishers, at one point even doing free-lance illustrations for at least one textbook publisher. Following his departure from DC Comics, Robinson's most popular creation was his syndicated feature ''True Classroom Flubs and Fluffs'', which for most of the 1960s ran in the Sunday comics section of several newspapers, most notably the ''New York Sunday News'' (later incorporated into the ''Daily News'').
He was president of the National Cartoonists Society from 1967 to 1969 and president of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists in 1979. In 1978 he founded Cartoonists & Writers Syndicate/CartoonArts International.
For his work in comics, he won several awards, including the National Cartoonists Society award for the Comic Book Division in 1956, their Newspaper Panel Cartoon for 1963 for ''Still Life'', their Special Features Award in 1965 for ''Flubs and Fluffs'', and their Milton Caniff Lifetime Achievement Award in 2000. Robinson was inducted into the Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2004.
1. Excerpt from Jerry Robinson interview in ''The Comics Journal'' #271 (Oct. 2005)
★ Newsarama.com: Jerry Robinson interview
★ The Jewish Museum
★ Lambiek Comiclopedia: Jerry Robinson
'Jerry Robinson' (born January 1, 1922 in Trenton, New Jersey) is an American comic book artist best known for his work on the Batman line of comics during the 1940s.
| Contents |
| Biography |
| Early life and career |
| Robin and the Joker |
| Later career |
| Awards |
| Footnotes |
| References |
Biography
Early life and career
Jerry Robinson was a journalism student at Columbia University in Manhattan when he began working for writer-artist Bob Kane in 1939.[1] Kane, with artist Bill Finger, had shortly before created the character Batman for National Comics, the future DC Comics. Robinson rented a room from a family in The Bronx near Kane's family's Grand Concourse apartment, where Kane used his bedroom as an art studio.1 He started as a letterer and a background inker, shortly graduating to inking secondary figures.1 Within a year, he became Batman's primariy inker, with George Roussos inking backgrounds. Batman quickly became a hit character, and Kane rented space for Robinson and Roussos in Times Square's Times Tower.1
Approximately a year and a half after being hired by Kane, National Comics hired Robinson and Finger away from Kane, making them company staffers.1 Robinson recalled working in the bullpen at the company's 480 Lexington Avenue office, alongside Superman creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, Jack Kirby, Fred Ray, and Mort Meskin, "who was one of my best friends, who I brought up from [comics publisher] MLJ."1
Robin and the Joker
By early 1940, Kane, partly inspired by the Junior character from the ''Dick Tracy'' comic strip, and Finger discussed adding a sidekick. Robinson suggested the name "Robin," after Robin Hood books he had read during boyhood, saying in a 2005 interview he was inspired by one book's N.C. Wyeth illustrations.1 The new character, orphaned circus performer named Dick Grayson, came to live with Bruce Wayne as his young ward in ''Detective Comics'' #38 (April 1940) and would inspire many similar sidekicks throughout the Golden Age of comic books.
Batman's archnemesis the Joker was introduced near that same time, in ''Batman'' #1 (Spring 1940). Credit for that character's creation is disputed. Robinson has said he created the character.1 Kane's position is that
''Detective Comics'' #38 (May 1940), the debut of Robin. Art by Bob Kane and Robinson.
Robinson, whose original Joker playing card was on public display in the exhibition "Masters of American Comics" at the Jewish Museum in New York City, New York, from Sept. 16, 2006 to Jan. 28, 2007, and the William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum in Atlanta, Georgia from Oct. 24, 2004 to Aug. 28, 2005, has countered that:
In 1943, when Kane left the Batman comic books to focus on penciling the daily ''Batman'' newspaper comic strip, Robinson took over the full penciling, along with others such as Dick Sprang. As was customary of the time, only Kane's name appeared on the strip.
Later career
Robinson went on to work on numerous other characters and for several publishers, at one point even doing free-lance illustrations for at least one textbook publisher. Following his departure from DC Comics, Robinson's most popular creation was his syndicated feature ''True Classroom Flubs and Fluffs'', which for most of the 1960s ran in the Sunday comics section of several newspapers, most notably the ''New York Sunday News'' (later incorporated into the ''Daily News'').
He was president of the National Cartoonists Society from 1967 to 1969 and president of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists in 1979. In 1978 he founded Cartoonists & Writers Syndicate/CartoonArts International.
Awards
For his work in comics, he won several awards, including the National Cartoonists Society award for the Comic Book Division in 1956, their Newspaper Panel Cartoon for 1963 for ''Still Life'', their Special Features Award in 1965 for ''Flubs and Fluffs'', and their Milton Caniff Lifetime Achievement Award in 2000. Robinson was inducted into the Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2004.
Footnotes
1. Excerpt from Jerry Robinson interview in ''The Comics Journal'' #271 (Oct. 2005)
References
★ Newsarama.com: Jerry Robinson interview
★ The Jewish Museum
★ Lambiek Comiclopedia: Jerry Robinson
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