Tom Sutton

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Tom Sutton (April 15, 1937, North Adams, Massachusetts - May 3, 2002, Amesbury, Massachusetts) was an American comic book artist who sometimes used the pseudonym Sean Todd. He is best known for his contributions to work Marvel Comics and Warren Publishing's line of black-and-white horror-comics magazines, particularly as the first story-artist of the popular character Vampirella.Sutton was raised in North Adams, Massachusetts, where father Harry was a plumbing, heating and air conditioning shopkeeper, and a machinist and gunsmith for General Electric and others. Influenced by the comic strip art of photorealist draftsman Milt Caniff and the illustrative Alex Raymond and Hal Foster, as well as by the EC line of 1950s horror comics, Sutton began drawing nudie schoolyard art for paying classmates.