Edward Summer (March 18, 1946 â€" November 13, 2014) was an American
painter, motion picture director, screenwriter, internet publisher,
magazine editor, journalist and science writer, comic book writer,
novelist, book designer, actor, cinematographer, motion picture
editor, documentary filmmaker, film festival founder, and educator. He
died on November 13, 2014.Among his better known works are the
collection of Carl Barks stories Uncle Scrooge McDuck: His Life and
Times, the Dinosaur Interplanetary Gazette (one of the pioneering
online magazines), the first motion picture based upon Robert E.
Howard's character Conan the Barbarian, the novel Teefr, and a prequel
The Legend of Teddy Bear Bob.Born in Buffalo, New York, Summer studied
painting at the Albright Art Gallery (now called the Albright-Knox Art
Gallery, Albright Art School, and with the noted water-color painter
Sandra Chessman. He was also acquainted from childhood with another
noted water-colorist, Robert Blair.Charles Summer, his father, was an
amateur photographer who owned a then uncommon Exakta single lens
reflex camera. The world-famous photographer Milton Rogovin was a
family friend and early on exposed him to fine-art photographs.
painter, motion picture director, screenwriter, internet publisher,
magazine editor, journalist and science writer, comic book writer,
novelist, book designer, actor, cinematographer, motion picture
editor, documentary filmmaker, film festival founder, and educator. He
died on November 13, 2014.Among his better known works are the
collection of Carl Barks stories Uncle Scrooge McDuck: His Life and
Times, the Dinosaur Interplanetary Gazette (one of the pioneering
online magazines), the first motion picture based upon Robert E.
Howard's character Conan the Barbarian, the novel Teefr, and a prequel
The Legend of Teddy Bear Bob.Born in Buffalo, New York, Summer studied
painting at the Albright Art Gallery (now called the Albright-Knox Art
Gallery, Albright Art School, and with the noted water-color painter
Sandra Chessman. He was also acquainted from childhood with another
noted water-colorist, Robert Blair.Charles Summer, his father, was an
amateur photographer who owned a then uncommon Exakta single lens
reflex camera. The world-famous photographer Milton Rogovin was a
family friend and early on exposed him to fine-art photographs.
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