Interiesting article about early comic artist - Arthur Pinajian 0

[metropoliscomics]

NY Times Article

[ernster]

Cool article.

[Detroit MIke]

S.

 

what do you know about Arthur Pinajian? did you see any of the comic art?

[deathlok]

Interesting

[metropoliscomics]

S.

 

what do you know about Arthur Pinajian? did you see any of the comic art?

 

 

 

I don't think I have come to think of it.

 

S

[Scrooge]

S.

 

what do you know about Arthur Pinajian? did you see any of the comic art?

 

 

 

I don't think I have come to think of it.

 

S

 

Here's what I had posted about this article in the GA forum if you missed it:

 

"Now, that's a very sad story to me. The guy did tons of work for Centaur then mainly for Quality. There's probably some interesting comic artwork in that collection but it seems no-one including the writer of the article (whose research consisted and stopped at Googling ) has an inkling of the extent of his work in that field.

 

The story has another bitter-sweet taste to me because I recalled immediately that Art's cousin is (was?) Chuck Mazoujian who was still alive when Art died. They must have grown apart / distant over the years since Chuck obviously didn't make any effort to go through Art's estate. The article makes it sound like the house has been vacant for a while. I would hate for the potential comic book pages to get lost or thrown away. Now, I'm sure some dealers will hear of this and rescue the pages. In fact, I hope they do! Would Stephen F. place a call for such obscure an artist's work? If you read this, please do!

 

Here are a couple of words from Chuck Mazoujian about his cousin, Art Pinajian:

 

"He was a very bright, amusing guy, and he was a pretty good writer who could come up with nice ideas. He was a little older than me (Scrooge note: Chuck was born in 1917). We grew up together as kids, and I loved him; he was a marvelous man. Art was good with ideas, but he wasn't a very good draftsman. He used to go to the Art Students League two or three nights a week to study figure drawing. He was very faithful about going, but he could never improve his work very much. He did some interesting, almost abstract drawings that I liked.

 

When we got together, we would talk about painting, art, and the guys whose work we loved: Norman Rockwell, Rembrandt, and the top illustrators of the day. Art loved painting, and that's what he did later in his life. I got word that he had died about a year and a half ago."

 

This would have been a better tribute to Art than the NY Times article!! The interview with Chuck by Jim Amash was published in Alter Ego # 48 in May 2005 and, yes, I still remember reading it! "

[Detroit MIke]

thanks scrooge.

[Electricmastro]

Arthur Ashod Pinajian (1914-1999):

“Pinajian, the son of Armenian holocaust survivors, was a native of Union City, New Jersey. He started as a cartoonist in the 1930s and found considerable success fashioning comic strips for Quality, Marvel, and Centaur Comics. 

After World War II, during which he earned the Bronze Star for valor, he rejected commercial art, attended the Art Students League in New York, and committed himself to the pursuit of serious painting. Prior to his many years in Bellport with Armen, he rented a studio in Woodstock, New York, and there and in West New York, New Jersey, he began to wrestle with the challenges of being a modern artist. This meant painting in a variety of styles ranging from the figurative to the abstract.”

http://www.pinajianart.com/largeformat/biography.html

http://bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=PINAJIAN%2C+ART