Nationality American Name Norman Nodel | Role Illustrator Died February 25, 2000 | |
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Area(s) Author; comics illustrator, inker, penciller | ||
Norman Nodel (1922-2000) was an American comics-illustrator, mostly known for his work in Classics Illustrated.
Biography
Norman Nodel was born Nochem Yeshaya in 1922. The son of an Orthodox Rabbi, Nodel served as a field artist in the U.S. Army, drawing military maps during World War II.
During the 1940s, Nodel worked as assistant to George Marcoux, the newspaper cartoonist known for creating Supersnipe, and started doing comic-book art for True Comics and Sun Publications.
In Classics Illustrated, a comic book series that began in 1941 and featured adaptations of literary classics, he created the illustration for many issues, such as Ivanhoe, Faust, Lion of the North, Les Misérables, and The Invisible Man. In 1962, he illustrated Dr No, the Classics adaptation of the eponymous James Bond spy thriller. The same year, Nodel worked on the Classics' revised adaptation of The Man Who Laughs, where his artwork showed a Gwynplaine far more disfigured than the character's appearance in either the 1928 film or the 1950, original Classics edition.
He began working, in 1988, for the Tzivos Hashem organisation and The Moshiach Times, a Jewish children’s magazine, creating comics for the Jewish-American market, such as "Labels for Laibel" for Hachai Publishing.