Posted on 02/14/2007 3:55:31 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (AP) -- Joe Edwards, an artist who worked on the 1942 debut issue of Archie comics, has died. He was 85.
Edwards also created the character Li'l Jinx.
He died on February first at his Long Island home after years of treatment for heart problems, according to his son, Todd Edwards of North Babylon.
A Manhattan native, Edwards served in the Army during World War II, illustrating training manuals. While based in Italy, he drew animated cartoons warning of minefields around Naples.
Todd Edwards says his father always carried a sketch pad and would delight doctors and nurses with sketches drawn personally for them.
Edwards drew the popular redheaded teenager, Archie Andrews, and his pals Jughead, Betty and Veronica, He also created Li'l Jinx, a precocious girl who had her own comic book for a time.
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I was always confused between his habit of including gospel messages with his lascivious drawings and Betty/Veronica/Archie triangle.
There is no confusion. God created hot chicks, too.
Being a hot chick myself, of course, I know that. I just thought modesty figured in there somewhere.
So, was Jughead gay or not?
Har! Very good, hot chick!
yes, he was a Ponce.....
missed this ping
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