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Marie Severin (born August 21, 1929) is an American comic book artist and colorist best known for her work for Marvel Comics and the 1950s' EC Comics. She was inducted into the Will Eisner Comics Hall of Fame in 2001. Her brother John Severin was also an artist who worked for EC and Marvel. ==Early life and career== Marie Severin was born in East Rockaway, New York, on Long Island,〔Cassell, p. 8〕 the second and last child of a father born in Oslo, Norway, who immigrated to the United States at age 3,〔 and a mother, Peg,〔Cassell, p. 19〕 from Syracuse, New York,〔 whose heritage was Irish.〔Cassell, p. 21.〕 Her older brother, John Severin, was born in 1922. The family moved to Brooklyn, New York City, when Marie was 4.〔 She attended a Catholic grammar school and then the all-girl Bishop McDonnell Memorial High School.〔Cassell, p. 12〕〔The school closed circa 1973 with the building then housing the St. Francis De Sales School for the Deaf: 〕 The family lived in an apartment in the Bay Ridge neighborhood at the time;〔Cassell, p. 18〕 it is uncertain if this was the family's original Brooklyn locale from Severin's childhood or if the family moved to that neighborhood in the interim. Due to the high school's staggered schedule, Severin's class graduated in January 1948, rather than in the spring as typical.〔 Severin grew up in an artistic household where her father, a World War I veteran, eventually became a designer for the fashion company Elizabeth Arden during the 1930s.〔Severin in 〕 In her teens, Severin took "a couple of months" of cartooning and illustration classes, and attended Pratt Institute in Brooklyn "for one day and said, 'This is a college', and I wanted to draw and make money".〔 Her first job was doing clerical work for an insurance company in downtown Manhattan "for a couple of years" while still living at home.〔Cassell, p. 13〕 She continued living there after her father died.〔 Severin was working on Wall Street when her brother John, then an artist for EC Comics, needed a colorist for his work there.〔 Marie Severin's earliest recorded comic-book work is coloring EC Comics' ''A Moon, a Girl... Romance'' #9 (Oct. 1949). In a 2001 interview, she recalled she broke in as a colorist She would contribute coloring across the company's line, including its war comics and its celebrated but notoriously graphic horror comics, and also worked on the comics' production end, as well as "doing little touch ups and stuff" on the art.〔 When EC ceased publication in the wake of the U.S. Senate hearings on the effects of comic books on children and the establishment of the Comics Code, Severin worked briefly for Marvel Comics' 1950s predecessor, Atlas Comics. After an industry downturn circa 1957, she left and found work with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. She recalled in 2001, "I did a little bit of everything for them — I did television graphics on economics () I did a lot of drawing. I did a(educational ) comic book that my brother did the finished art on... about checks".〔 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「Marie Severin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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