In the 1960s he entered the animation field and became equally well-known and respected for his groundbreaking designs for Space Ghost and The Herculoids, among other series.Now available from IDW Publishing and The Library of American Comics is Genius, Illustrated - the middle entry in a three volume project that examines the life and career of the undeniably great and simultaneously vastly unappreciated artist Alex Toth. During his sixty-year professional career, he became known as the artists artist-he became very much like his great hero, Noel Sickles-the guy all the others wanted to draw like. Howard Chaykin, The Los Angeles Review of Books About the Author Born in New York City in 1928, Alex Toth attended what is now the School of Visual Arts and broke into the comic book field as a teenager.

Theyve presented a well chosen selection of the first full decade of Toths career, arguably his most creative period, in a beautifully designed volume that conveys the artists evolution - an astonishingly brief transition that happened in barely five years - from talented beginner to absolute master. Review Quotes What Mullaney and Canwell have done here is nothing short of wonderful. Winner of the Harvey Award for Best Biographical Book.

Updates include clarification on Toths early married life in the 1950s and the first appearance of the recently disovered final page that completes the special section collecting Jon Fury, the comic strip Toth created in the army, a prize long sought by even the most ardent Toth collectors. It also reproduces 20 complete stories, including a previously unknown and unfinished story from 1950, most printed from the original artwork. Now in paperback, this biography was compiled with complete access to the family archives and with the full cooperation of Toths children, this biography features many rare comics pages, photographs, and drawings. In animation, his 1960s model sheets for Hanna-Barbera are still passed around as swipe sources from animator to young animator in the 21st Century. Starting in 1950, his work influenced almost every one of his contemporaries and has continued to work its magic on the generations that followed. In comic books, Alex Toth was the foremost proponent of modern design and composition. Book Synopsis This lavishly illustrated biography documents the life and art of one of the most significant comics and animation artists of all time.

Genius, Animated by Dean Mullaney