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Billy Graham (July 1, 1935-1999)〔"Biographies: Billy Graham", ''Marvel Masterworks: The Black Panther Volume 1'' (Marvel Worldwide : New York, 2010), ISBN 978-0-7851-4198-3〕 was an African-American comic-book artist best known for his work on the Marvel Comics series ''Luke Cage, Hero for Hire'', and the ''Jungle Action'' feature, "Black Panther". ==Early career== A graduate of New York City's Music & Art High School, Billy Graham drew artistic influences from the work of Al Williamson, Frank Frazetta, Burne Hogarth, and George Tuska. One of his earliest comics projects was illustrating writer Don Glut's "Death Boat!" in ''Vampirella'' #1 (Sept. 1969), one of the earliest of Warren Publishing's influential black-and-white horror-comics magazines. Graham went on to pencil and self-ink a story in nearly each of the first dozen issues of ''Vampirella'', and an additional tale in issue #32 (April 1970) of its brethren publication ''Creepy''.〔(Billy Graham ) at the Grand Comics Database〕 Publisher James Warren recalled in 1999 that he promoted Graham to art director shortly after recruiting him as an artist: In a 2005 interview, Warren mentions tweaking a ''Rolling Stone'' reporter who asked about his decision to hire an African-American art director, a rarity in comics at the time: "'What!?' mock-screamed Warren. 'Is Billy black? I didn't know that. Get him in here! Billy, are you black? You're fired!'" 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Billy Graham (comics)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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