The Ottawa Sun profiles Golden Age comic creator Alvin Schwartz, the man credited with creating Bizarro:
Where he consorted with the likes of rebel artist Jackson Pollock and writer Saul Bellow, Schwartz now toils — as one Internet commentator put it — “in the backwoods of Ottawa, Canada, in a small farm cottage where his only neighbours are cows. One might call it a fortress of solitude.”
He may be away from the action but Schwartz is far from forgotten. Just last summer, he was the recipient of a major comics industry award for excellence in writing.
In addition to Superman and Batman, Schwartz also worked on Aquaman, Wonder Woman, The Flash and the Green Lantern. And he’s credited with creating the comic book character Bizarro.
Schwartz also wrote two Superman “operas” and wrote a novel called The Blowtop, “the book that sparked the Beat Generation.”
December 26th, 2006 at 9:53 pm
Schwartz keeps busy, even today, by writing.
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