Kenneth Landau

Kenneth Landau was a comic book artist and cartoonist for over 40 years. His career began in 1941 and continued until finishing with the Smurfs and retiring in 1988. He is still talked about to this day on multiple blogs.

ABOUT

Just Published:
The Wonderful Comic Books of Kenneth Landau

Written by Ken’s daughter, Maranee Landau
Now available for purchase

Book Overview

"Kenneth Landau was an artist of considerable talent during the late Golden Age and Silver Age of Comics. His work particularly graced the pages of ACG's horror and mystery comics... although my favorite was his rendition of Commander Battle and the Atomic Sub in the mid-1950s. If only more artists had followed his lead in signing their work, expressing their pride in their contributions to what was one of the liveliest forms of popular culture!"
- Roy Thomas, editor-in-chief of Marvel Comics (1972- 1974) and writer of The Avengers, The X-Men, Fantastic Four, Dr. Strange, et al.

"In 1960, at age 8, I was nearly traumatized by Kenneth Landau's bizarre "Interplanetary Episode", in which a pathetic village idiot is so cruelly abused by the locals that the appearance of the hideous aliens midway through is actually a relief, they being "essentially kind" and noble. The story was originally published in a censored version in 1955, then inexplicably reprinted in its original, ghastly glory in 1960, during the sanitized "Comics Code" era. Landau's unsettling artwork, in the grand tradition of Daumier and Ensor, captures his withered, sardonic, decaying characters and their world so effectively that this story still gnaws away at me today, with its bleak, disturbing... but fascinating power."