Anna Sewell was born on March 30, 1820, in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk,
England. After a childhood injury, she was confined to her house as
an invalid and got around largely by carriage horse. Sewell spent
her last years writing the children's classic Black Beauty (1877),
a fictional autobiography of a gentle, high-bred horse. She died of
hepatitis in 1878, just five months after her book was published.
LEONARD BRANDT COLE had worked as art director for a lithography
outfit, before entering the comic book field during the Golden Age
in the early 1940's. He was mainly a cover illustrator for titles
like Suspense Comics and Contact Comics. In his early work, he
always used basic, flat colors and produced what he called "poster
color covers". Illustrating over 1500 covers, Cole drew everything
from funny animals to superheroes to jungle girls and sci-fi. A
science fiction fan, Cole would often slip rocket ships and ray
guns onto books such as 'Captain Flight' and 'Contact Comics' which
were supposed to be devoted to contemporary aviation.
As for interior artwork, Cole did pencils and/or inks on several
features for Holyoke Publications, Gilberton and Farrell. Cole also
published comic books through Star Publications, producing various
crime, terror, jungle and romance titles in the late 1940s and
1950s. He was art director and editor at Dell Publishing in the
early 1960s. He has mainly done commercial art and design from the
mid 1960s onwards, working among others on audio-visuals for
University Films. Cartoonist STEPHEN L. ADDEO was one of the
countless contributors to one of the world's most popular series
releases ever, "Classics Illusrrated". Not much is known about the
artist as a person - but he was behind the cartoons in a number of
popular titles, just as he designed a number of covers.
"Classics Illustrated" consisted of cartoon versions of famous
literary classics. The Russian-born Albert Lewis Kanter (1897-1973)
started releases in 1941 for Elliot Publishing - first as "Classic
Comics". The first sheet contained a series version of Alexandre
Dumas' "The Three Musketeers", followed by "Ivanhoe" and "The Count
of Monte Cristo".
The series number four, "The Last of the Mohicans" was launched on
a new publisher - Gilberton Publications. And here came Stephen L.
Addeo into the picture. NORMAN NODEL (Nochem Yeshaya) was a noted
artist and illustrator of children's books and magazines. Nodel
began his illustrious career as a field artist in the army, drawing
military maps during World War II. After the war, he pursued a
successful career as an artist in a variety of styles, notably
illustrating a great many issues in the famous 'Classics
Illustrated' series in the 1950s. In the 1940s, he had previously
been an assistant to George Marcoux, and he has done comic book art
for True Comics and Sun Publications.
His contributions to 'Classics Illustrated' varied from 'Ivanhoe'
to 'Faust' and 'The Invisible Man'. He was also a regular on
Charlton's teen, horror and romance titles of the 1960s and 1970s.
In the 1960s he contributed to the Warren magazines Eerie and
Creepy, using the pen name Donald Norman.
During the last twelve years of his life, Mr. Norman Nodel devoted
a major amount of his time and energy to illustrating books and
magazines specifically for Jewish children, which gave him great
pleasure and satisfaction. Norman Nodel worked to the last day of
his life. He died on the 25th of February, 2000.
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