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Graham Ingels ( June 7 , 1915 - April 4 , 1991 ) was a comic-book artist best known for his work at the EC Comics company in the 1950s, notably on '' The Haunt Of Fear '' and '' Tales From The Crypt '', horror titles written and edited by Al Feldstein, and '' The Vault Of Horror '', written and edited by Feldstein and Johnny Craig. With the death of his father, Ingels began working at the age of 14, entering the art field when he was 16. Graham and Gertrude Ingels married when he was just beginning as a freelancer at age 20. He entered the Navy in 1943, doing illustrations in the post-WWII years for Fiction House , Magazine Enterprises and other publishers of comic books and pulp magazines. The Ingels had two children, Deanna (born 1937) and Robby (born 1946), who was named after a character on the '' Baby Snooks '' radio program created by child impersonator Lenore Ledoux. Artist Howard Nostrand, a friend of Ingels, recalled: :Robby, his son, was about 12 then... skinny little twirp when I knew him. He's probably flying a jet airplane now or something. That's what always happens with little kids, you know. Robby was short for Robespierre. The reason why they called him that was left over from the old Fanny Brice show, ''Baby Snooks''. Baby Snooks had a little kid brother named Robespierre. They called him that when he was a little kid, and the name stuck. "Howard Nostrand Interview." ''Graphic Story Magazine'', Summer 1974. Ingels began at EC by doing Western and romance stories. His flair for horror led the company to promote him as "Ghastly Graham Ingels," and he sometimes signed his work "Ghastly." His unique and expressive style was well-suited for the atmospheric depiction of Gothic horrors amid crumbling Victorian mansions in hellish landscapes populated by twisted characters, grotesque creatures and living corpses with rotting flesh. A trademark of his was a character with a thread of saliva visible in a horrified open mouth. As the lead artist for '' The Haunt Of Fear '', he brought to life the Old Witch, host of "The Witch's Cauldron" lead story, and he also did the cover for each issue. After EC ceased publication in the mid-1950s, Ingels contributed to '' Classics Illustrated '' and took a teaching position with the Famous Artists correspondence school located in Westport, Connecticut. He left the Northeast and became an art instructor in Florida, refusing to acknowledge his horror comics until a few years before he died. REFERENCE EXTERNAL LINKS |
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