He took night lessons at Pratt Institute as well as life drawing classes at the Brooklyn Museum. īuscema graduated from Manhattan's High School of Music and Art. Wyeth, Norman Rockwell, Dean Cornwell, Coby Whitmore, Albert Dorne, and Robert Fawcett. He showed an interest in commercial illustration of the period, by such artists as N. In his teens, he developed an interest in both superhero comic books and such adventure comic strips as Hal Foster's Tarzan and Prince Valiant, Burne Hogarth's Tarzan, Alex Raymond's Flash Gordon, and Milton Caniff's Terry and the Pirates. 1949), one of Buscema's earliest recorded comic-book coversīorn in Brooklyn, New York City, from Sicilian parents who emigrated from Pozzallo, Ragusa, John Buscema showed an interest in drawing at an early age, copying comic strips such as Popeye. He was inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2002. In addition, he pencilled at least one issue of nearly every major Marvel title, including long runs on two of the company's top magazines, Fantastic Four and Thor.
His younger brother Sal Buscema is also a comic book artist.īuscema is best known for his run on the series The Avengers and The Silver Surfer, and for over 200 stories featuring the sword-and-sorcery hero Conan the Barbarian. John Buscema ( / b j uː ˈ s ɛ m ə/ bew- SEM-ə born Giovanni Natale Buscema, Italian: Decem– January 10, 2002) was an American comic book artist and one of the mainstays of Marvel Comics during its 1960s and 1970s ascendancy into an industry leader and its subsequent expansion to a major pop-culture conglomerate.
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