A pioneer in comic book art and animation, Alex Toth emerged during the Golden Age, illustrating the adventures of Green Lantern, Justice Society of America and more for National/DC Comics. Once the first superhero craze faded, Toth did groundbreaking work on suspense and romance titles for Standard Comics. Later, at Dell, he did seminal work on Zorro, along with other TV and movie adaptations.
Toth was known for his innovative visual storytelling, his page design and figure drawing. His goal was to strip every image to it's absolute essence, never to put down an unneeded line.
Later, he moved into animation work, focusing on character design. He created designs for Space Ghost, the Herculoids, Super Friends and more. He didn't leave comics entirely, though, and came back to illustrate a few notable assignments for DC (Hot Wheels, an Atom-Flash team-up) and work for Warren's black-and-white horror/suspense mags, such as Eerie and Creepy.
Alex Toth books
Genius, Isolated: The Life and Art of Alex Toth
Setting the Standard: Comics by Alex Toth 1952-1954
Zorro
Roy Rogers: The Collected Daily and Sunday Newspaper Strips
DEAR JOHN: The Alex Toth Doodle Book
Alex Toth : Edge of Genius Volume One
ALEX TOTH READER Vol. 1
America's Greatest Comics 10 Spotlight on Alex Toth
Alex Toth sites:
Tothfans.com
Alex Toth Original Art Gallery
Alex Toth IMDB
Alex Toth DVDs:
Space Ghost and Dino Boy: The Complete Series
Thundarr: The Barbarian
The Scooby-Doo Dynomutt Hour - The Complete Series
Super Friends!: Season One, Vol. One
Super Friends!: Season One, Vol. Two
The All-New Super Friends Hour: Season One, Vol. 1
The All-New Super Friends Hour: Season One, Vol. 2
Herculoids: The Complete Series
Moby Dick & The Mighty Mightor: Complete Series
Birdman and the Galaxy Trio: The Complete Series
Alex Toth comics cover gallery
Alex Toth animation design gallery:
BBC Radio 2 profiles Pete Townshend
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Paul McCartney ballet score due out Oct. 4
Ocean's Kingdom, a ballet score composed by former Beatle will be out on CD and vinyl Oct. 4.
The piece will be performed by the New York City Ballet Sept. 22 and runs about 45 minutes. Composer John Wilson assisted Macca with the orchestration.
In a New York Times interview, McCartney described the ballet as:
The piece will be performed by the New York City Ballet Sept. 22 and runs about 45 minutes. Composer John Wilson assisted Macca with the orchestration.
In a New York Times interview, McCartney described the ballet as:
“basically a romantic story” involving two worlds — the ocean kingdom, representing purity, and the earth kingdom, “the sort of baddies.” The daughter of the ocean king falls in love with the brother of the earth king, and “you’ll have to see whether the couple make it,there’s all sort of troubles along the way.”
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