Alexandre Gillespie Raymond
Alex Raymond of his true name Alexandre Gillespie Raymond (October 2nd 1909 with New State La Rochelle of New York - September 6th 1956 with Westport in the Connecticut) was a American Dessinateur of cartoons. He was married in 1931 in Helen Frances William with which he had five children.
After difficult odd jobs as a stockbroker at the time of the Great Crisis, it is encouraged by its neighbor Russ Westover (draftsman of Tillie the Toiler ) to join King Features Syndicate. In the most complete anonymity, he becomes the assistant of Lyman and Chic Young in 1930 on Tim Tyler' S Luck and Blondie . When the KFS decides to launch its own series of science fiction in 1933, it creates Flash Gordons which will pose the rule like the space opera drawn. In the tread, it launches Jungle Jim , which joined the great tradition of the adventurer fighter. In parallel, it touches into 1934 with the codes of the whodunnit by starting the adventures of the Secret agent X-9 at the sides of Dashiell Hammett. Three outstanding series forming like triptic band-drawn modern kind.
It must stop its work because of the Second world war, where it will be useful in the Corps of the Navy of the United States of America.
In 1946, it begins the series RIP Kirby for which it will receive a Reuben Award of the National Cartoonists Society in 1949.
He dies in 46 years in an accident by driving the car of the draftsman Stan Drake.
Its realistic style and its controlled use of the nuances continue to be a source of inspiration for generations of draftsmen.
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