Clarence Gray

Magazine illustration by Clarence Gray

Clarence Gray (November 14, 1901 - January 5, 1957) was an American comic strip artist, best known for his long run drawing Brick Bradford for more than two decades. He also worked as a freelance illustrator for various magazines.

Biography

Born in Toledo, Ohio, the red-haired youth began drawing trains and automobiles at an early age, concentrating on art courses in grade and high school. After high school graduation, he started his career at $18 a week doing sports and editorial cartoonist with the Toledo News-Bee.^[1] In 1933, he created Brick Bradford with writer William Ritt, for the Central Press Association of Cleveland. Launched as an adventure strip, it quickly developed into one of the leading science-fiction strips of the 1930s. The daily comic strip was joined by a Sunday page in 1934, followed by a companion strip, The Time Top in 1935.^[1]

When Ritt stopped scripting in 1952, Gray worked only on the Sunday strip and left the daily strip to Paul Norris.^[1]

Gray and his wife Jessie lived in Rocky River, Ohio where they had one son, Robert, and red-haired twins, Janet and Jane. When not at the drawing board, Gray liked golf, hunting, fishing and camping. "Rain on a tent-top thrills me," he said. "I always think there is a big bass under every lily pad on a cool, green lake."

Clarence Gray died in 1957 at age 55.

References

1. ^ ^{a b c} Comiclopedia. "Clarence Gray". http://lambiek.net/artists/g/gray_c.htm. Retrieved 2007-05-10. 

External links

• Classic Brick Bradford Strips

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Name	Gray, Clarence
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Date of birth	1911
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Date of death	January 5, 1957
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