April 23, 2006
Dick Rockwell, 1920-2006
Dick Rockwell, the longtime art assistant to Milton Caniff on
Steve Canyon and a prolific artist of genre titles in the late 1940s and early 1950s for publishers Gleason, Hillman, Marvel/Timely and Dell. The partnership with Caniff involved Rockwell doing everything except the main figure drawing, which for most great strips would be a career but on a feature as lovely as
Canyon was a distinguished one. As one might hazard a guess from the name, he was the nephew of the painter Norman Rockwell. Rockwell later did a few comics in the Direct Market age, and worked as an illustrator, editorial cartoonist, and courtroom sketch artist. The writer and comics historian Mark Evanier, who worked with Rockwell on one of the modern
Blackhawk iterations, wrote a very respectful piece
on the late artist here. Dick Rockwell was 85 years old.
Trust me: that cover is worth a click-through.
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