Al Feldstein

Al Feldstein was a groundbreaking comic book editor and artist, and one of the mainstays of EC Comics. After following several art studies, he began his career in the comic book field at Jerry Iger's shop in 1941. Through the shop, he drew for companies like Fiction House (a.o. Sheena, Kayo Kirby), Quality (Dollman, etc.), Fox and Aviation Press until 1946. He was in the air force during World War II, and joined EC in 1947. He stayed at this company until his retirement in 1985.

He drew for EC's love, crime and western strips, before the company took on its famous line of horror, science-fiction and suspence comics, also known as "The New Trend". He dropped most of his drawing activities during the 1950s, and became one of The New Trend's most prolific and innovating writers. Co-editing the line with Bill Gaines, he continued to do an occasional science-fiction cover however.

When E.C. launched MAD magazine, Feldstein and Gaines came up with 'Panic', an imitation of their own title. When the market of horror titles collapsed, Feldstein became MAD's editor, which he remained for many years. After his retirement, he came back to the field in 1997 to draw covers for the comic book series 'Tomb Tales', published by Cryptic Comics.