![]() I drew little animated flip books on index cards. I would come home from the movies and practice drawing the characters. I had paperback reprints of the early Kurtzman stories, illustrated by Wally Wood, Will Elder, and Jack Davis. I made up my own cartoon characters and drew stories about them. ![]() I used to read Pogo, Li'l Abner, Peanuts, Blondie and B.C. ![]() When I was a little boy I loved the funny papers. Their parents had both attended Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, and their father, who, Baker said, "worked in advertising made junk mail", would "draw pictures for us and entertain us." Aside from this exposure to art, Baker has said, his early artistic influences included comic book artist Jack Kirby, caricaturist Jack Davis, and painter and magazine illustrator Norman Rockwell. Baker and high-school audiovisual-department manager Eleanor L. ![]() Kyle Baker was born in the Queens, New York City, the son of art director John M. Kyle John Baker (born 1965) is an American cartoonist, comic book writer-artist, and animator known for his graphic novels and for a 2000s revival of the series Plastic Man.īaker has won numerous Eisner Awards and Harvey Awards for his work in the comics field.īiography Early life and career ![]()
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