Nationality Puerto Rican Name Ernie Colon | Role Comics artist | |
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Born Ernesto Sierra de Cordobes y Lopez Colon
July 13, 1931 (age 92)
Puerto Rico ( 1931-07-13 ) Area(s) Penciller, Artist, Inker, Editor, Letterer Notable works Arak, Son of Thunder
Amethyst, Princess of Gemworld
Casper the Friendly Ghost
Richie Rich
The 9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation Similar People Dan Mishkin, Roy Thomas, John Albano | ||
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Ernie Colón (born July 13, 1931, in Puerto Rico and raised in the US) is an American comics artist known for his wide-ranging career, including working in the fields of children's comics, horror, and nonfiction.
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Career
Ernie Colón began his professional career at Harvey Comics as a letterer. He later worked, uncredited, as an artist on titles including Richie Rich and Casper the Friendly Ghost. At Harvey, he met Sid Jacobson, who became his editor and frequent creative partner.
His first confirmed, credited work was penciling and inking the two-page story "Kaleidoscope of Fear" in Wham-O Giant Comics #1 (cover-dated April 1967, published by the toy company Wham-O). He drew three issues of Gold Key Comics' Doctor Solar, Man of the Atom (#24-26, July 1968 - Jan. 1969), and did much work for Warren Publishing's black-and-white horror-comics magazines Creepy, Eerie, and Vampirella.
Colón was an editor for DC Comics from 1982 to 1985. He oversaw titles such as Arion, Lord of Atlantis, The Flash, Green Lantern, and Wonder Woman.
Colón's many artistic credits include Grim Ghost for Atlas/Seaboard; the historical fantasy Arak, Son of Thunder (with writer Roy Thomas); Amethyst, Princess of Gemworld (with writers Dan Mishkin and Gary Cohn) for DC Comics; Airboy for Eclipse Comics; Magnus: Robot Fighter for Valiant Comics; and Damage Control and Doom 2099 for Marvel Comics. Also for Marvel, Colón wrote, drew, colored and lettered the 1988 science-fiction graphic novel Ax.
In the late 1980s, Colón penciled the short-lived Bullwinkle and Rocky series for Marvel's children's imprint Star Comics (edited by Sid Jacoboson). Colón returned to Harvey (along with Jacobson) in the early 1990s, and worked on such projects as Monster in My Pocket and Ultraman. From 2005 until the tabloid's demise in 2007, he drew the weekly comic strip "SpyCat" in the Weekly World News.
Colón and Jacobson created a graphic novel version of the 9/11 Commission Report titled The 9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation (cover-dated Aug. 2006). They released a 160-page follow-up, After 9/11: America's War on Terror (Aug. 2008). The duo's A Graphic Biography: Che was released in 2009. The following year, Farrar, Straus and Giroux published their next collaboration, Anne Frank: The Anne Frank House Authorized Graphic Biography, published by Hill & Wang.
He illustrated The Great American Documents: Volume 1 by Ruth Ashby, published by Hill and Wang in May 2014.
