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katz in his studio brooklyn , new york , us jay alec justice , david hadley hawk , vaughn beering , alac justice , inkpot award , 1982 american 1927 artist , writer artist_jack_katz_2 . jpg jack katz -lrb- artist -rrb-
 jack katz
jack katz -lrb- artist -rrb-

jack katz -lrb- born 1927 -rrb- is an american comic book artist and writer , painter and art teacher known for his graphic novel `` the first kingdom '' , a 24-issue epic he began during the era of underground comix .
influenced by such illustrative comic-strip artists as hal foster and alex raymond , katz attended the school of industrial art in new york city .
he began working for comic-book publishers in the 1940s , during the period fans and historians call the golden age of comic books .
though continuing to work in comics through the 1950s , his slow pace and highly detailed , idiosyncratic art style prompted him to leave that field for 14 years .
circa 1969 , he returned to mainstream color comics as well as to black-and-white horror-comics magazines , and after a move to california embarked upon `` the first kingdom '' , a serialized work that later became considered a precursor to , or an early form of , the graphic novel .
he completed it in 1986 , and went on to write and draw further works in that vein , and to teach art .
