JOHN CELARDO MORREU

Soube da triste noticia atraves do Ota. Na minha opinião, John Celardo, Russ Manning e Bob Lubbers foram os ótimos (e classicos) sucessores a desenhar as aventuras do Rei das Selvas, depois de Hal Foster e Burne Hogarth. Conheci seu traço firme e hachurado, na decada de 70, pela saudosa editora Ebal, que publicou Tarzan em suas series Lança de Prata e de Ouro. Apesar de alguns criticos acharem seu desenho duro, eu o achava dinamico, extremamente bem feito e detalhado. E com arte-final primorosa e otimo uso do claro-escuro.
Bob Lubbers (que nasceu em 1922) fez parte do estúdio de All Capp, criador de Lil´Abner (Ferdinando Buscapé), Saint, Camilla, Big Ben Bolt, entre outros. A informação que tive de pessoas que cuidavam do site dele nos EUA é que há anos ele não dava notícias.

WAP
http://wap.dead-celeb.com/index.php/categories/1-latest/2283-john-celardo
"Died January 6, 2012. Born December 27, 1918.
American comic strip and comic book artist, best known for illustrating the Tarzan comic strip.
Celardo grew up on Staten Island and continued to live there most of his life. After a childhood in Mariners Harbor, he graduated from Port Richmond High School. Serving with the Army during World War II, he was assigned to duty in the European theater, where he rose to the rank of captain. Returning to Staten Island after WWII, he lived in Castleton Corners and eventually settled in Graniteville.
In addition to art study with the Federal School's correspondence course, his extensive art training was at New York's Art Students League, the School of Industrial Arts and the School of Visual Arts. He began his professional career doing sports cartoons for Street & Smith and then began drawing for comic books, including a job at the Eisner-Iger shop. During the 1940s, he was a major contributor to the Fiction House line. Over decades, he did work for a variety of publishers: American Comics Group, DC Comics, Gold Key, Quality, Standard. St. John and Whitman.
In the early 1950s, he succeeded Bob Lubbers as illustrator of the Tarzan comic strip. He began the Tarzan daily strip on January 18, 1954 and the Sunday strip on February 28, 1954, eventually drawing a total of 4350 daily strips and 724 Sunday strips. He continued on Tarzan until Russ Manning took it over in the 1960s. He then succeeded Joe Kubert on Tales of the Green Beret and worked on Buz Sawyer in the 1980s.
During the 1960s, he also did artwork for Topps Chewing Gum, including a comic strip on their Land of the Giants card series."

MONDO INFORMAZIONE
http://it.paperblog.com/morto-john-celardo-il-fumettista-che-invento-tarzan-807018/
"Morto John Celardo, il fumettista che inventò Tarzan
La settimana scorsa all’età di 93 anni si è spento il fumettista John Celardo, disegnò le strisce a fumetti di Tarzan dal 1954 al ’67.
Nato da una famiglia di immigrati italiani, studiò alla New York School of Industrial Arts.
La sua produzione di strisce (oltre 4.000, dalla numero 4.507 alla n. 8.856) e di tavole (oltre 700, dalla n. 1.199 alla n. 1.922) durò fino alla fine del 1967."

ERB SITE
http://www.erbzine.com/mag

LAMBIEK
http://lambiek.net/artists/c/celardo_john.htm
John Celardo
(b. 27/12/1918, d.06/01/2012 USA)
John Celardo is an American artist, writer and editor, born on Staten Island, New York. He got his art studies at the Arts Students League and the New York School of Industrial Arts. He started his professional career contributing sports cartoons to Street and Smith publications in 1937. He soon turned to comics, and went to the Eisner-Iger studios.
There, he did 'Dollman', 'Wonder Boy', 'Uncle Sam', 'Paul Bunyan', 'Espionage', 'Hercules', 'Old Witch' and 'Zero Comics', sometimes working under the pseudonym John C. Lardo. From 1940 he also worked for Fiction House, where he drew 'Hawk', 'Red Comet', 'Powerman', 'Captain West' and 'Kaanga'. After the War, he continued his work at Fiction House, illustrating 'Tiger Man', 'Suicide Smith' and others.
In the 1950s Celardo started free-lancing, before he succeeded Bob Lubbers on the daily 'Tarzan' comic. In the 1960s he also took on the writing of the 'Tarzan' strip and introduced many new characters from outside and inside the jungle, such as Red Chinese spies. In the late 1960s, he took over 'The Green Berets' from Joe Kubert and 'Davy Jones' from Sam Leff and Alden McWilliams. In the 1970s he returned to free-lancing and did such titles as 'Believe It or Not' for Western and several titles for National. In 1973 he became comics editor at King Features and stopped drawing himself. However, he returned to the drawing-board in the 1980s, to draw the 'Buz Sawyer' newspaper strip."

GUIA DOS QUADRINHOS
http://www.guiadosquadrinhos.com/artistabio.aspx?cod_art=54
Desenhista americano, começou a carreira em 1948. Ficou mais conhecido por seu trabalho no material para jornais de "Tarzan", que assumiu em 18/01/54. Celardo fez tanto as tiras diárias (que produziu entre 1954-68) quanto as páginas dominicais (que fez entre 28/02/54 e 1968):
TIRAS DIÁRIAS:
- primeira: n° 4507 (18/01/54);
- última: n° 8856 (1968).
DOMINICAIS:
- primeira: n° 1199 (28/02/54);
- última: n° 1922 (1968).
Para muitos fãs de “Tarzan”, o traço de Celardo era inexpressivo. Ainda assim, ele desenhou o Homem-Macaco por quase 15 anos. Em 1982, passou a desenhar as tiras de “Buz Sawyer” (“Jim Gordon”), onde acabou surpreendendo os leitores com um novo estilo, “uma interessante mistura dos traços de Crane com os seus próprios, resultando numa historieta acetável, bem acima do que se podia esperar de Celardo”, como bem observou Luiz Antônio Sampaio. (ALR)."
Notas e fontes —
http://bookscomics.blogspot.com/2010/05/tarzan-daily-strips-by-john-celardo-d20.html
Páginas dominicais de “Tarzan” desenhadas por Celardo:
(..) http://www.erbzine.com/mag14/1439.html