Todd, Larry S
Entry updated 7 October 2024. Tagged: Artist, Author, Comics.
(1948-2024) US author and illustrator who began to publish work of genre interest with cartoons in Imagination from the June 1956 issue. His first prose story was "Simon Says" in If for June 1965, as Lawrence S Todd; he also published stories in Galaxy and Worlds of Tomorrow in the 1960s, and contributed artwork to all three magazines. In the 1970s he collaborated with Vaughn Bodē on four covers for Amazing Stories and Fantastic, and produced the cover and internal artwork for Harlan Ellison's Chocolate Alphabet (graph 1978) by Harlan Ellison, for Last Gasp. In the early 1980s he illustrated R A Lafferty's novel Aurelia (1982) for Donning Starblaze.
Todd is perhaps now best known for Comics work, including his own creation in the early 1970s of Dr. Robot (beginning in underground newspapers and becoming a series published by Last Gasp), and contributions to Epic Illustrated and Heavy Metal. From 1984 he provided storyboards to Bodē's artist son Mark for a continuation of Bodē's Post-Holocaust strip "Cobalt-60" (June 1968 Shangri L'Affaires), the result being Cobalt-60 (graph 1988). [DRL]
Lawrence S Todd
born Buffalo, New York: 6 April 1948
died Willits, California: 28 September 2024
works
- Cobalt-60 (Norfolk, Virginia: The Donning Company/Starblaze, 1988) with Mark Bodē and Vaughn Bodē [chap: graph: first instalment June 1968 Shangri L'Affaires #73; reprinted with continuation, December 1984-August 1985 Epic Illustrated: pb/Mark Bodē]
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