"Space Ghost" artist Alex Toth dies at 77
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designed classic Hanna Barbera adventure cartoons such as The
Superfriends and Space Ghost, has died.
Toth died while sitting at his drawing table at his home in Burbank on
May 27, his son Eric said. He was 77.
Eric Toth said the cause of death had not yet been determined, but his
father had been in failing health for years.
Before working in animation, Toth was a comic book artist, widely
regarded as brilliant, who had some success but even more frustration.
He rarely held on to an artist job for long because of a simple, subtle
drawing style and a stubborn adherence to his artistic principles. And
he preferred pirate tales and westerns over the more popular super hero
comics.
"Toth was one of the most brilliant artists ever in comic books but
also someone who was the odd man out in many ways," said comics
publisher and critic Gary Groth. "He was never associated with a
particular character, and he was pushed off to marginal titles."
But Toth's forms would prove influential in underground comics and
graphic novels in later decades. Comic artist Will Eisner called him "a
mastery of realism within a stunning illustrative style."
Toth was born in New York, where he lived and worked until settling in
San Jose in the late 1950s. While living there he worked for Dell
Comics on titles derived from television shows like Sea Hunt and Zorro.
That led to animation work in Southern California, where he moved in
1964.
Drawing for Hanna Barbera in the 1960s and 1970s, Toth designed
characters for adventure cartoons Jonny Quest and The Herculoids in
addition to The Superfriends and Space Ghost, and he achieved the wider
recognition and commercial success that had eluded him.
"The work he did there touched more lives than anything else he had
done," said Paul Levitz, president and publisher of DC Comics. "He
found ways to take characters like Superman from their more complicated
printed form into a simpler form for animation that still held on to
their power and majesty."
Toth is survived by sons Eric and Damon Toth, daughters Dana Palmer and
Carrie Morash, and four grandchildren.
At Alex Toth's request, no memorial service was planned.
JAH
>BURBANK, Calif. (AP) - Alex Toth, a maverick comic artist who
>designed classic Hanna Barbera adventure cartoons such as The
>Superfriends and Space Ghost, has died.
I loved those cartoons.
JAH
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Agent Smith
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> On 5 Jun 2006 07:51:31 -0700, PUSSS...@aol.com wrote:
>
>>BURBANK, Calif. (AP) - Alex Toth, a maverick comic artist who
>>designed classic Hanna Barbera adventure cartoons such as The
>>Superfriends and Space Ghost, has died.
>
> I loved those cartoons.
And I loved his comics.
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forces to say:
i wonder what he thought of Space Ghost: Coast to Coast?
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Agent Smith
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> Agent Smith wrote:
>> anotherwriter (JAH) wrote:
>>> PUSSSYKATT wrote:
>>>
>>>>BURBANK, Calif. (AP) - Alex Toth, a maverick comic artist who
>>>>designed classic Hanna Barbera adventure cartoons such as The
>>>>Superfriends and Space Ghost, has died.
>>>
>>> I loved those cartoons.
>>
>> And I loved his comics.
>
> i wonder what he thought of Space Ghost: Coast to Coast?
>
> "Chef of chicanery, your buns are mine!"
You could try to track down surviving family members.
BIG BEN
Hardly a Neal Adams or Jim Steranko or a Jim Starlin, not even a Jack Kirby.
Still, he did his bit for comic artwork.
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