Ripley's Believe It Or Not! Artist, John Graziano
The Artist, John Graziano, has been working as an artist and illustrator since 1983, when he received a certificate in illustration from the Newark School of Fine and Industrial Arts. He has designed trading card sets("You Slay Me!" and a "Dark Shadows Anniversary Set") and a portrait series based on the 1960s cult TV show "Dark Shadows."Also he has created comic strips for "Scream Queens" magazine, designed t-shirts graphics and created storyboards and concept drawings for Hollywood films("Starkid" and "Fever"). John Graziano has also been a working musician for the past 20 + years starting out in an original band called "The Response" which enjoyed some local success in the mid 1980`s then moving on to play in various combos and duos as"Busstop","Dandelion" and ultimately for quite a number of years playing bass and singing in a popular1960s tribute band called "Carnaby Street."
Ripley's Believe It Or Not ®, one of the longest-running comic panels in history, continues to fascinate comics readers with unbelievable facts from around the world.
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These fascinating illustrated panels are read every day in more than 37 countries including Saudi Arabia, New Zealand and Norway. Ripley's has developed a
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worldwide following since Robert Ripley's first Believe it or Not ®! cartoon appeared in The New York Globe in 1918. Over the next decade, the panel established
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a tradition of bringing phenomenal events to local newspapers. Ripley traveled all over the world to find the strange tid-bits for his Believe It or Not ®! books and comic strip.
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He continued to do the strip until he died in 1949.
