![]() Foremost among these was Scorchy Smith artist Noel Sickles, who initiated the newspaper adventure strip's modern illustrative and cinematic techniques. While majoring there in book illustration, Toth sought advice from many of the strip illustrators he admired. ![]() ![]() His drawing skills so impressed one teacher that he recommended him to the High School of Industrial Art. From the age of three he would imitate the newspaper strips, and draw figures and scenes to match the voices while listening to his favourite radio shows. His parents were both artistic: his father created and took part in Hungarian plays and musical performances, singing for President Roosevelt's birthday balls his mother was adept at sketching fashionable girls, which Alex, an only child, would copy. Toth (pronounced "both") was of Hungarian extraction, but spent his first 22 years in his native New York. Starting in 1964, he also worked in animation, designing television cartoons of Space Ghost, Jonny Quest, Josie and the Pussycats, Herculoids, Hot Wheels, Shazzan, Fantastic Four, Scooby-Doo, Super Friends, Battle of the Planets and other popular characters. ![]() ![]() During a restless career of more than 45 years, the American artist Alex Toth, who has died aged 77, drew comics in almost every genre - from war and western to horror and romance - and illustrated stories of Superman, Batman, Zorro, Green Lantern, the Flash and the X-Men. ![]()
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