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Ramona Fradon (born October 1, 1926)〔''U.S. Public Records Index'' Vol. 1 (Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.), 2010.〕 is an American comic book and comic strip artist, known for her work illustrating Aquaman and Brenda Starr, and co-creating the superhero Metamorpho. Her career began in 1950. ==Career== Fradon entered cartooning just after graduating from the Parsons School of Design. Comic-book letterer George Ward, a friend of her husband (''New Yorker'' cartoonist Dana Fradon),〔 asked her for samples of her artwork to pitch for job openings. She landed her first assignment on the DC Comics feature "Shining Knight". Her first regular assignment was illustrating an ''Adventure Comics'' backup feature starring Aquaman. She and writer Robert Bernstein co-created the sidekick Aqualad in ''Adventure Comics'' #269 (Feb. 1960). Following her time with Aquaman, and taking a break to have her daughter, Fradon returned to co-create Metamorpho.〔〔McAvennie "1960s" in Dolan, p. 114: "Scribe Bob Haney and artist Ramona Fradon were truly in their element...Haney and Fradon's collaborative chemistry resulted in () Mason becoming Metamorpho."〕 She drew the character's two try-out appearances in ''The Brave and the Bold'' and the first four issues of the eponymous series and returned briefly to design a few covers for the title. Fradon drew ''The Brave and the Bold'' #59 (April–May 1965), a Batman/Green Lantern team-up, the first time that series featured Batman teaming with another DC superhero.〔McAvennie "1960s" in Dolan, p. 115: "By issue #50, ''The Brave and the Bold'' developed into the ultimate team-up book. ''The Brave and the Bold'' #59 added one final element to the team-up theme, when writer Bob Haney and artist Ramona Fradon partnered Batman with Green Lantern."〕 From 1965 to 1972, Fradon left comics to raise her daughter. In 1972, she returned to DC where later in the decade she would draw ''Plastic Man'', ''Freedom Fighters'' and ''Super Friends'' which she penciled for almost its entire run.〔 She also worked for Marvel Comics during this period, but left after only two assignments: a fill-in issue of ''Fantastic Four'' and the never-published fifth issue of ''The Cat''. Fradon recounted: First of all, I was really rusty. And (''The Cat'' #5 ) I was totally confounded by not drawing from a script. They gave me this one paragraph and said go draw this 17-page story. I don’t think I did my best work by any means. I think I had a script on ''Fantastic Four'', but I just don’t think they were satisfied with my work. Then I went back to DC and started doing mysteries with Joe Orlando. I really had a lot of fun doing that. It suited my style, I think.〔 In 1980, Dale Messick retired from drawing the newspaper strip ''Brenda Starr'', and Fradon became the artist for it, until her own retirement in 1995.〔〔 Fradon was inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2006. She contributed pencils to the 2010 graphic novel ''The Adventures of Unemployed Man'', the 2012 graphic novel ''The Dinosaur That Got Tired of Being Extinct'', and the collection ''The Art of Ramona Fradon''. 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「Ramona Fradon」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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