COMIC ARTIST

Alex Raymond

1909 - 1956

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Alexander Gillespie Raymond Jr. (October 2, 1909 – September 6, 1956) was an American cartoonist and illustrator who was best known for creating the Flash Gordon comic strip for King Features Syndicate in 1934. The strip was subsequently adapted into many other media, from three Universal movie serials (1936's Flash Gordon, 1938's Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars, and 1940's Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe) to a 1950s television series and a 1980 feature film. Raymond's father loved drawing and encouraged his son to draw from an early age. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Alex Raymond is the 134th most popular comic artist (down from 116th in 2019), the 8,455th most popular biography from United States (down from 7,047th in 2019) and the 28th most popular American Comic Artist.

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Page views of Alex Raymond by language

Over the past year Alex Raymond has had the most page views in the Spanish wikipedia edition with 2,507 views, followed by Italian (2,087), and French (1,958). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Simple English (145.88%), French (22.22%), and Ukrainian (0.00%)

Among COMIC ARTISTS

Among comic artists, Alex Raymond ranks 134 out of 226. Before him are Raymond Briggs, Momoko Sakura, Tsutomu Nihei, Joe Simon, Jamie Hewlett, and Kouta Hirano. After him are Les Clark, John Buscema, Yukito Kishiro, Mauri Kunnas, Inio Asano, and Sylvain Chomet.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1909, Alex Raymond ranks 347. Before him are Carla Laemmle, Dimitar Dimov, Solomon Linda, Katherine Dunham, Eduardo Astengo, and Michio Mado. After him are Gregorio Blasco, Karel Burkert, Vlasta Děkanová, Sabir Yunusov, Stephen Spender, and Archie Cochrane. Among people deceased in 1956, Alex Raymond ranks 187. Before him are Jan Lechoń, Otto Scheff, Henry Nicholas Ridley, Khadr El-Touni, Leonard Peterson, and María Teresa Ferrari. After him are Wollmar Boström, Edward Arnold, Jim Elliot, René Bougnol, Georg Brustad, and Frithiof Mårtensson.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Alex Raymond ranks 8,455 out of 20,380. Before him are Phillip Rhee (1960), Cliff Bourland (1921), Judith Krantz (1928), Willie Steele (1923), William Bradford (1755), and Theobald Smith (1859). After him are Tim Keller (1950), Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden (1829), King Kong Bundy (1955), Julia Morgan (1872), Jeremy Piven (1965), and Howard Ashman (1950).

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Among COMIC ARTISTS In United States

Among comic artists born in United States, Alex Raymond ranks 28. Before him are Floyd Gottfredson (1905), John Romita Sr. (1930), Richard Corben (1940), Roy Thomas (1940), Larry Lieber (1931), and Joe Simon (1913). After him are Les Clark (1907), John Buscema (1927), Rose O'Neill (1874), Mike Mignola (1960), George Herriman (1880), and Mort Walker (1923).

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