Final Farewells • Frank E. Strom, Comics Writer/Artist

RIP - his passing is noted by none other than old friend of his Tom Brevoort. He wrote a number of the 90's era Elvira Comics.

https://tombrevoort.substack.com/p/94-mortality

Frank had aspirations of breaking into the field professionally, and he operated on the fringes of it for many years, but was never quite able to find that break that would make it a full time vocation. He wrote a ton of issues of the licensed ELVIRA comic book, he had a short-lived series in Fantagraphics’ X-Rated Eros line in the 1990s, CHEETA POP, SCREAM QUEEN, and he wrote one story for Marvel. That one I commissioned from him especially; it starred the 1940s/1950s character Venus who was a fascination of both of ours, and guest-starred both a number of the girl comics stars of the 1950s but also a small bevy of Marvel’s pre-hero monsters.

Here is one of the issues he worked on:

and a splash page (but I don't think it's his art):

Considering his long life in fandom, was he perhaps a contributor here?

Official obit:
https://www.mcdonaldfs.com/obituaries/frank-strom

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