Comic Book Artist Herb Trimpe Dies at Age 75
April 14, 2015 11:51 AM Subscribe
Herb Trimpe, long time artist on The Incredible Hulk, died yesterday at the age of 75. In addition to his seven year run on the Hulk, Trimpe drew the first issues of Marvel's G.I. Joe comic and was the artist on the first appearance of Wolverine.
Trimpe attended the School of Visual Arts and began his career inking backgrounds for Dell Comics. After serving in the United State Air Force, Trimpe began his long career with Marvel Comics in 1967 making his debut in Kid Colt Outlaw #134. He penciled The Incredible Hulk in a nearly unbroken run from 1968 - 1972.
In May 2014, the original art page by Trimpe featuring the first appearance of Wolverine sold for a record $657,250.00.
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posted by scaryblackdeath at 12:05 PM on April 14, 2015
posted by scaryblackdeath at 12:05 PM on April 14, 2015
A friend of mine used to work with Trimpe at Marvel back in the day and posted a link to this Hulk story of his. Thought I'd pass it along.
Heaven Is A Very Small Place
posted by Naberius at 12:09 PM on April 14, 2015 [6 favorites]
Heaven Is A Very Small Place
posted by Naberius at 12:09 PM on April 14, 2015 [6 favorites]
Here's a great picture of Trimpe in the Marvel bullpen in 1970. Trimpe was ordained a deacon by the Episcopal Diocese of New York in 1991. In that link with the picture he talks about his experience working with rescue workers at the site of the 9/11 attack in New York.
Lots of tributes across the web and social media, by all accounts he was a great guy and up until the end was going to conventions and drawing the Hulk and Wolverine for fans.
posted by marxchivist at 12:28 PM on April 14, 2015 [2 favorites]
Lots of tributes across the web and social media, by all accounts he was a great guy and up until the end was going to conventions and drawing the Hulk and Wolverine for fans.
posted by marxchivist at 12:28 PM on April 14, 2015 [2 favorites]
Trimp wrote a piece for the NY Times about his transition to teaching when styles shifted out from under him in the mid-nineties.
Old Superheroes Never Die, They Join the Real World (via)
posted by He Is Only The Imposter at 12:30 PM on April 14, 2015 [2 favorites]
Old Superheroes Never Die, They Join the Real World (via)
posted by He Is Only The Imposter at 12:30 PM on April 14, 2015 [2 favorites]
Herb Trimpe is somebody who never quite got the appreciation he should've gotten during his lifetime, a solid cartoonist working in the shadow of such giants as Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko, but whose work on the Hulk's formative years was quietly influential and to me is still the way the Hulk should look. His art style has always been easily digestable, never flashy or to be honest, all that exciting but very well suited to the Marvel housestyle of the seventies. Every now and then he could surprise you, especially if you look at his earlier work on the cowboy titles Marvel put out in the sixties.
posted by MartinWisse at 1:33 PM on April 14, 2015 [3 favorites]
posted by MartinWisse at 1:33 PM on April 14, 2015 [3 favorites]
I read the NYT article that Trimpe wrote and, considering his financial situation, I kinda wish there was some way that even a TEENY percentage of that $657,250.00 could have trickled down to him.
posted by TDavis at 2:23 PM on April 14, 2015 [3 favorites]
posted by TDavis at 2:23 PM on April 14, 2015 [3 favorites]
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posted by doctor_negative at 3:18 PM on April 14, 2015
posted by doctor_negative at 3:18 PM on April 14, 2015
Heaven Is A Very Small Place
Naberius, I loved that story! Thank you for the link. Not only is Trimpe's art great (The anatomy! The *movement*!) but I kind of love the unabashedly literary narration. Phrases like "The great-thewed Goliath" in a dimestore comic... those were the days!
posted by Pallas Athena at 4:10 PM on April 14, 2015 [1 favorite]
Naberius, I loved that story! Thank you for the link. Not only is Trimpe's art great (The anatomy! The *movement*!) but I kind of love the unabashedly literary narration. Phrases like "The great-thewed Goliath" in a dimestore comic... those were the days!
posted by Pallas Athena at 4:10 PM on April 14, 2015 [1 favorite]
Trimp wrote a piece for the NY Times about his transition to teaching when styles shifted out from under him in the mid-nineties.
And yet, here we are now, 20 years on from that Dark Time, and whose work holds up?
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posted by Mezentian at 5:09 AM on April 15, 2015 [4 favorites]
And yet, here we are now, 20 years on from that Dark Time, and whose work holds up?
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posted by Mezentian at 5:09 AM on April 15, 2015 [4 favorites]
Lots about Herb Trimpe including a bunch of art.
I saw the "We Love You Herb Trimpe" short film at a con once; sadly, it doesn't seem to be online.
posted by Zed at 11:04 AM on April 15, 2015
I saw the "We Love You Herb Trimpe" short film at a con once; sadly, it doesn't seem to be online.
posted by Zed at 11:04 AM on April 15, 2015
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