Flash Gordon / We've combed the whole island
Date1938
Artist
Alexander Gillespie Raymond
(American cartoonist, 1909–1956)
Illustration CitationPanel from "Flash Gordon." Syndicated: appeared in The Salt Lake Tribune, September 11, 1938
MediumInk on paper mounted on board
Dimensionscomposition: 9 1/2 × 7 7/8 in. (24.1 × 20 cm)
sheet: 9 7/8 × 8 3/8 in. (25.1 × 21.3 cm)
frame: 22 3/8 × 18 3/8 × 7/8 in. (56.8 × 46.7 × 2.2 cm)
sheet: 9 7/8 × 8 3/8 in. (25.1 × 21.3 cm)
frame: 22 3/8 × 18 3/8 × 7/8 in. (56.8 × 46.7 × 2.2 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1987
Object number1987-45
On View
On viewClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextAfter Alexander Gillespie (Alex) Raymond studied at the Grand Central School of Art in New York City, he began working with Russ Westover, the creator of King Features Syndicate's Tilly the Toiler comic strip. For four years, he also assisted other King cartoonists until in 1933 he created the science fiction character Flash Gordon, conceived as a competitor to the popular Buck Rogers. He drew the strip until 1944, when he joined the Marines in World War II and Austin Briggs took over. At the same time, Raymond drew the strips Jungle Jim and Secret Agent X9, the latter scripted by Dashiell Hammett. Simultaneously, Raymond illustrated for Collier's Weekly and Cosmopolitan, among other magazines. Raymond's career was cut short by his early death but other artists took up Flash Gordon, which has been adapted to radio, film and television into the 21st century.
