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Birth
1889 (Washington District Of Columbia)
Death
1959
Lived/Active
Pennsylvania
Frank Godwin
Often Known For
commercial illustrator-cartoonist, mural, etcher
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Frank Godwin was a prominent painter, magazine illustrator, and advertising artist, who lent his sophisticated talents to the comics for the last 30 years of his life. He contributed to numerous strips in the daily papers. His own creations, "Connie" (1927-1944) and "Rusty Riley" (1948-1959), are among the most highly admired continuity strips in the literature of the comics.
Godwin was the son of an editor for the Washington (D.C.) Star, and began his career in art with his fathers paper (showing 500 of 5669 characters). |
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