Regularly exchanging mail with the fledgling community of science fictionįantastic Fiction Publication Company and released Cosmic Stories, one of the first known science fiction fanzines. Gernsback, "The Father of Science Fiction." By the time he started attending Glenville High School, Jerry was Shuster would often incorporateĬontemporary Art Deco and Streamline Moderne styles similar to Raymond inĪ letter from Jerry appeared in the August 1929 issue ofĪmazing Stories and another was printed in the November issue of As a teenager, Joe idolized Flash Gordon creator Alex Raymond, Tarzan artist Burne Hogarth, and Little Nemo in Slumberland by Winsor McCay and pulp-cover illustrationsīy Frank R. The comic strips and science-fantasy pulps of the era. In Toronto, Joe discovered some discarded rolls of wallpaper that he would use Impoverished and unable toĪfford drawing paper, he salvaged any scraps that were available. His eyesight began to deteriorate at an early age. He often used a breadboard as a drawing surface unless his mother needed it to bake the challah for Shabbat. Joe was ambidextrous and he would switch hands when one tired from drawing. Toronto Daily Star while attending Ryerson Public School. Joe took an early interest to art and began drawing at the age of four.Īt nine, Joe started his first job hawking newspapers for the His parents, Julius and Ida Shuster, left Europe in 1912 to escape anti-Semitic violence. Artist Joseph Shuster was born on July 10, 1914, in Toronto,Ĭanada.
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