JIM PIKE (Jay Scott Pike)
JIM PIKE (Jay Scott Pike) (born 1924, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), is an American comic book artist and commercial illustrator known for his 1950s and 1960s work for Marvel Comics and DC Comics, advertising art, and as a Playboy-affiliated good girl artist. He created the DC character Dolphin and co-created the Marvel character Jann of the Jungle.
Biography
Early life and career
Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Jay Scott Pike enrolled at the Art Students League in Manhattan, New York City at the age of 16. After military service in the United States Marines, he went on to study at the Parsons School of Design, Syracuse University, and the Ringling School of Art in Sarasota, Florida.
The DC Comics character Dolphin, was created by Pike in Showcase #79 (Dec. 1968). Cover art by Jim Pike.
His earliest confirmed comic book art is the five-page story "The Living Dead", by an unknown writer, in Adventures into Terror #3 (April 1951), from Atlas Comics, the 1950s forerunner of Marvel Comics. Tentative earlier credits exist, but because it was not standard practice during this period to list complete writer/artist comic-book credits, confirmation is difficult.
Comic books
Pike quickly became a regular Atlas Comics contributor, drawing in a variety of genres for such titles as the Westerns Black Rider, Red Warrior, Texas Kid, and Wild Western; such crime comics as All True Crime Cases Comics, Amazing Detective Cases, Crime Must Lose, and Justice; romance comics, including Girl Confessions, Love Romances, Love Tales, My Own Romance, Secret Story Romance, and True Secrets; war comics such as Battle, Battlefield, Battlefront, Combat Casey, Men's Adventures, Men in Action, and War Action; and horror comics including Adventures into Weird Worlds, Journey into Mystery, Mystic, and Uncanny Tales; and jungle adventure such as Jungle Tales, and Lorna, the Jungle Girl, among other comics. With writer Don Rico, he co-created the character Jann of the Jungle in Jungle Tales #1 (Sept. 1954), and drew her adventures in numerous issues of that title and her own series. His final Atlas/Marvel works were the six-page story "When a Romance Ends" in Love Romances #87 (May 1960), and the five-page "Love Or Infatuation?", written by Stan Lee, years later in issue #105 (May 1963). (Many of Pike's 1950s Atlas stories were reprinted by Marvel Comics in the 1970s.)
Pike began drawing for rival DC Comics in the mid-1960s, beginning with the 12-page story "In the Name of Love", starring Wendy Winthrop, Television Model, by an unknown writer, in Girls' Romances #99 (March 1964). He primarily drew for the publisher's romance comics, including Heart Throbs, Our Love Story, Secret Hearts, and Young Love. For Heart Throbs, Pike and inker Russ Jones illustrated the long-running feature "3 Girls—Their Lives—Their Loves," which ran from 1966–1970.
In addition to his DC romance work, Pike as both writer and artist created the undersea superheroine Dolphin in Showcase #79 (Dec. 1968). His stories continued to appear in DC Comics through Girls' Love Stories #180 (Dec. 1973).
Later career
By the early 1960s, Pike was drawing covers for such magazines as True Detective.
His good girl art pinup work included succeeding Art Frahm on the "panties-falling-down" series for the A. Fox calendar company. The last in this series, featuring a brunette and her dog outside a construction site, is entitled "Dog Tied"
As an advertising artist, he worked on campaigns for clients including Borden, Ford Motor Company, General Mills, Pepsi, Procter & Gamble, and Trans World Airlines. Near the end of his commercial career, Pike began painting fine art canvases of nudes, as well as pencil drawings of nudes that appeared in Playboy clubs before being published.
After a long hiatus from comic books, Pike returned in 1993 to draw layouts for two issues and then do full penciling for an issue on the DC Comics series Scarlett #12-14 (Dec. 1993 - Feb. 1994). He also penciled the 58-page story "All Good Things" in DC's one-shot comic Star Trek: The Next Generation The Series Finale (1994)
Pike is now retired and living in Florida, where he still paints every day.
Bibliography
The Pin-Up Art of Jay Scott Pike, Vol. 1 (SQP Inc., 2006) ISBN 0-86562-129-2, ISBN 978-0-86562-129-9
ON THE ROAD WITH MIKE GELLERMAN
Roy Lichtenstein
01 NOVEMBER 2010
Most of his best-known artworks are relatively close, but not exact, copies of comic book panels, a subject he largely abandoned in 1965. (He would occasionally incorporate comics into his work in different ways in later decades.) These panels were originally drawn by such comics artists as Jack Kirby and DC Comics artists Russ Heath, Tony Abruzzo, Irv Novick, and Jerry Grandenetti, who rarely received any credit. Jack Cowart, executive director of the Lichtenstein Foundation, contests the notion that Lichtenstein was a copyist, saying: "Roy's work was a wonderment of the graphic formulae and the codification of sentiment that had been worked out by others. The panels were changed in scale, color, treatment, and in their implications. There is no exact copy." However, some have been critical of Lichtenstein's use of comic-book imagery, especially insofar as that use has been seen as endorsement of a patronizing view of comic by the art mainstream; noted comics author Art Spiegelman commented that "Lichtenstein did no more or less for comics than Andy Warhol did for soup."
Deconstructing Roy Lichtenstein (sources for Lichtenstein's comic-book paintings)
mgellerman.blogspot.com/2010/11/roy-lichtenstein.html
DECONSTRUCTING ROY LICHTENSTEIN™ © 2000
JIM PIKE (Jay Scott Pike)
JIM PIKE (Jay Scott Pike) (born 1924, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), is an American comic book artist and commercial illustrator known for his 1950s and 1960s work for Marvel Comics and DC Comics, advertising art, and as a Playboy-affiliated good girl artist. He created the DC character Dolphin and co-created the Marvel character Jann of the Jungle.
Biography
Early life and career
Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Jay Scott Pike enrolled at the Art Students League in Manhattan, New York City at the age of 16. After military service in the United States Marines, he went on to study at the Parsons School of Design, Syracuse University, and the Ringling School of Art in Sarasota, Florida.
The DC Comics character Dolphin, was created by Pike in Showcase #79 (Dec. 1968). Cover art by Jim Pike.
His earliest confirmed comic book art is the five-page story "The Living Dead", by an unknown writer, in Adventures into Terror #3 (April 1951), from Atlas Comics, the 1950s forerunner of Marvel Comics. Tentative earlier credits exist, but because it was not standard practice during this period to list complete writer/artist comic-book credits, confirmation is difficult.
Comic books
Pike quickly became a regular Atlas Comics contributor, drawing in a variety of genres for such titles as the Westerns Black Rider, Red Warrior, Texas Kid, and Wild Western; such crime comics as All True Crime Cases Comics, Amazing Detective Cases, Crime Must Lose, and Justice; romance comics, including Girl Confessions, Love Romances, Love Tales, My Own Romance, Secret Story Romance, and True Secrets; war comics such as Battle, Battlefield, Battlefront, Combat Casey, Men's Adventures, Men in Action, and War Action; and horror comics including Adventures into Weird Worlds, Journey into Mystery, Mystic, and Uncanny Tales; and jungle adventure such as Jungle Tales, and Lorna, the Jungle Girl, among other comics. With writer Don Rico, he co-created the character Jann of the Jungle in Jungle Tales #1 (Sept. 1954), and drew her adventures in numerous issues of that title and her own series. His final Atlas/Marvel works were the six-page story "When a Romance Ends" in Love Romances #87 (May 1960), and the five-page "Love Or Infatuation?", written by Stan Lee, years later in issue #105 (May 1963). (Many of Pike's 1950s Atlas stories were reprinted by Marvel Comics in the 1970s.)
Pike began drawing for rival DC Comics in the mid-1960s, beginning with the 12-page story "In the Name of Love", starring Wendy Winthrop, Television Model, by an unknown writer, in Girls' Romances #99 (March 1964). He primarily drew for the publisher's romance comics, including Heart Throbs, Our Love Story, Secret Hearts, and Young Love. For Heart Throbs, Pike and inker Russ Jones illustrated the long-running feature "3 Girls—Their Lives—Their Loves," which ran from 1966–1970.
In addition to his DC romance work, Pike as both writer and artist created the undersea superheroine Dolphin in Showcase #79 (Dec. 1968). His stories continued to appear in DC Comics through Girls' Love Stories #180 (Dec. 1973).
Later career
By the early 1960s, Pike was drawing covers for such magazines as True Detective.
His good girl art pinup work included succeeding Art Frahm on the "panties-falling-down" series for the A. Fox calendar company. The last in this series, featuring a brunette and her dog outside a construction site, is entitled "Dog Tied"
As an advertising artist, he worked on campaigns for clients including Borden, Ford Motor Company, General Mills, Pepsi, Procter & Gamble, and Trans World Airlines. Near the end of his commercial career, Pike began painting fine art canvases of nudes, as well as pencil drawings of nudes that appeared in Playboy clubs before being published.
After a long hiatus from comic books, Pike returned in 1993 to draw layouts for two issues and then do full penciling for an issue on the DC Comics series Scarlett #12-14 (Dec. 1993 - Feb. 1994). He also penciled the 58-page story "All Good Things" in DC's one-shot comic Star Trek: The Next Generation The Series Finale (1994)
Pike is now retired and living in Florida, where he still paints every day.
Bibliography
The Pin-Up Art of Jay Scott Pike, Vol. 1 (SQP Inc., 2006) ISBN 0-86562-129-2, ISBN 978-0-86562-129-9
ON THE ROAD WITH MIKE GELLERMAN
Roy Lichtenstein
01 NOVEMBER 2010
Most of his best-known artworks are relatively close, but not exact, copies of comic book panels, a subject he largely abandoned in 1965. (He would occasionally incorporate comics into his work in different ways in later decades.) These panels were originally drawn by such comics artists as Jack Kirby and DC Comics artists Russ Heath, Tony Abruzzo, Irv Novick, and Jerry Grandenetti, who rarely received any credit. Jack Cowart, executive director of the Lichtenstein Foundation, contests the notion that Lichtenstein was a copyist, saying: "Roy's work was a wonderment of the graphic formulae and the codification of sentiment that had been worked out by others. The panels were changed in scale, color, treatment, and in their implications. There is no exact copy." However, some have been critical of Lichtenstein's use of comic-book imagery, especially insofar as that use has been seen as endorsement of a patronizing view of comic by the art mainstream; noted comics author Art Spiegelman commented that "Lichtenstein did no more or less for comics than Andy Warhol did for soup."
Deconstructing Roy Lichtenstein (sources for Lichtenstein's comic-book paintings)
mgellerman.blogspot.com/2010/11/roy-lichtenstein.html
DECONSTRUCTING ROY LICHTENSTEIN™ © 2000