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Illustrator Edward D. Cartier Dies

Illustrator Edward D. Cartier has died at age 94 reports the Chicago Tribune. Some of Cartier's extensive illustration credits include hundreds The Shadow magazine (see here) and illustrations for novels by Robert A. Heinlein and Theodore Sturgeon.

Mr. Cartier, whose nickname was "Edd," is considered the definitive illustrator of The Shadow and Unknown magazines, and illustrated extensively for numerous publications, including Astounding Science Fiction, Doc Savage, Other Worlds and Red Dragon Comics.

His pulp fiction illustrations of the 1930s through the 1950s and his art appeared in works by authors Robert A. Heinlein and Theodore Sturgeon.

Cartier was also an infantryman and heavy machine gunner in World War II and earned a earned a Purple Heart and Bronze Star. You can read more obits here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here.

Posted on 2009-01-05

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