Born in rural Illinois, George Metzger moved with his family to northern California when he was six years old. As a youth, he collected comic strips and read such authors as H. P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard and Herbert Asbury. He studied the work of such book illustrators as Fritz Eichenberg and Lynd Ward. His later work was influenced by his interest in Maxfield Parrish, Hannes Bok, EC Comics and various science fiction illustrators.
After graduating from high school in 1957 (showing 500 of 2773 characters). |
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