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Comic Book Legend Marie Severin Suffers Another Stroke

Published Wed, 29 Aug 2018 09:38:07 -0500

Last updated Thu, 30 Aug 2018 04:50:38 -0500

It was just a week ago that Marie Severin celebrated her 89th birthday. But today, the word passed on from Jon Cooke from Marie Severin's niece,

"We got news Marie had a stroke and is going back to the nursing home with hospice care. They say she cannot move but is still smiling. Very sad, she is one if a kind."

Marie Severin was a comic book artist and colourist working, most prominent for her 1960s work in the Marvel Bullpen, but also for her work for EC Comics in the 1950s.

Her older brother, John Severin, was also a well known comic creator of the time. Her first work was colouring her brother's pages in 1949 for EC Comics, then the entire line, basically writing the comic book colouring rules of the time. She started pencilling for Marvel Comics as well, taking over from Bill Everett on Doctor Strange, then working on titles including Sub-Mariner, the Hulk, Iron Man, Conan the Barbarian, Kull the Conqueror and Daredevil, as a member of the Marvel Bullpen. She was a rare example of a woman working in an artistic field in the comics industry of the day.

In 1976, Severin co-created Spider-Woman, designing her original costume. as well as Howard the Duck's Doctor Bong. In the eighties, she specialised in Marvel's licensed work including Fraggle Rock and Muppet Babies. The nineties saw her hailed as a comics veteran, teamed with Jim Mooney and Dave Cockrum's penciling on Soulsearchers and Company from Claypool.

Her retirement saw her still work in the field, including recolouring EC Comics stories for archival publications, winning her an Eisner and she was inducted into the Will Eisner Comics Hall of Fame in 2001.

Severin first suffered a stroke over ten years ago in 2007, and recovered and recuperated in Huntington Hospital on Long Island. All at Bleeding Cool wish her and her friends and family the best.