Murphy Anderson (b. 1926)

Born: 1926 July 9 in Asheville, North Carolina, United States

Died: 2015 October 22 in Somerset, New Jersey, United States

Notes: To be confirmed against the Who's Who entry.

Sample Scan:

Name:

    Murphy Anderson Type: Common Alternative Name
    Given name: Murphy Family name: Anderson

Other Names:

  1. Murphy Clyde Anderson Jr. Type: Name at Birth
    Given name: Murphy Clyde Jr. Family name: Anderson

Schools:

  1. Art Institute School [Chicago] ? to ?

  2. Art Students League of New York ? to ?

  3. University of North Carolina 1943 to 1943

Signatures:

  1. Anderson [generic]
  2. M [generic]
  3. M. A. [generic]
  4. MA [generic]
  5. Made by Murph [generic]
  6. Murphy Anderson [generic]
  7. Murphy Anderson [in a rectangle]
  8. Swanderson [generic]

Awards:

  1. 1962: Alley Awards - Best Inker
  2. 1963: Alley Awards - Artist Preferred on Justice League [of America]
  3. 1964: Alley Awards - Best Inking Artist
  4. 1965: Alley Awards - Best Inking Artist
  5. 1984: Inkpot Award - [no name]
  6. 1999: Eisner Award - Hall of Fame - Voter's Choices
  7. 2013: Inkwell Awards - The Sinnott Hall of Fame Award

Awards for Issues:

  1. 1965: Alley Awards - Best Novel
    Showcase (1956 series) #55
  2. 1996: Squiddy Award - Reprint Collection
    Superman: Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow? (1997 series) [First Printing]

Awards for Stories:

  1. 1961: Alley Awards - Best Cover
    Flash of Two Worlds! (The Flash) cover, 1p
  2. 1962: Alley Awards - Best Book-Length Story
    The Planet That Came to a Standstill! (Adam Strange) comic story, 24p
  3. 1964: Alley Awards - Best Comic Book Cover
    Castle with Wall-to-Wall Danger! (Batman with Robin the Boy Wonder) cover, 1p
  4. 1965: Alley Awards - Best Comic Book Cover
    Mastermind of Menaces! (Black Canary; Starman) cover, 1p

Art Influences:

Murphy Anderson (b. 1926) stated influences by:
  1. Will Eisner (b. 1917)
  2. Lou Fine (b. 1914)
  3. Hal Foster (b. 1892)
  4. Alex Raymond (b. 1909)
Influences by Murphy Anderson (b. 1926) were stated by:
  1. Gary Barker (b. 1957)
  2. Norm Breyfogle (b. 1960)
  3. Steve Leialoha (b. 1952)
  4. Mike Tiefenbacher (b. 1952)

Memberships:

  1. National Cartoonists Society Type: member

Relations:

  1. Parent of - Murphy Anderson III

  • GCD
  • Sort by
  • Advanced Query
If you believe any of this data to be incorrect, please let us know.
Cover thumbnails are used for identification purposes only. All rights to cover images reserved by the respective copyright holders.
Creative Commons License All portions of the Grand Comics Database™, except where noted otherwise, are copyrighted by the GCD and are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0). This includes but is not necessarily limited to our database schema and data distribution format.
The GCD Privacy Policy. The GCD Web Site code is licensed under the GNU General Public License.