{"id":79162,"date":"2011-12-09T13:15:46","date_gmt":"2011-12-09T19:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comicattack.net\/?p=79162"},"modified":"2011-12-09T13:15:46","modified_gmt":"2011-12-09T19:15:46","slug":"ripjerry-robinson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicattack.net\/ripjerry-robinson\/","title":{"rendered":"R.I.P Jerry Robinson, 1922-2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/comicattack.net\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/images.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-79167\" style=\"margin: 1px 4px;\" src=\"https:\/\/comicattack.net\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/images.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"183\" height=\"275\" \/><\/a>It has been confirmed by his son that comic artist Jerry Robinson passed away on Wednesday at the age of 89, at a hospital on Staten Island in New York.<br \/>\nThe summer before going to college he met Bob Kane by chance\u00a0on a tennis court, who was impressed with drawings Robinson did himself on a jacket he wore. Robinson was given the choice by Kane that he could join the Batman-team at DC, or go off to Syracuse University in the Empire State\u00a0for college. Thankfully for the history of comic books, he chose to ditch Syracuse and go to DC Comics.<br \/>\nRobinson is best remembered for two things; first is the creation of Batman&#8217;s all time villain The Joker, and the second being the creation of Batman&#8217;s sidekick, Robin (Dick Grayson). Aside from creating these two icons for the DC Universe, Robinson would go on to leave the title, working on a wide array of comic projects, which included everything from the syndicated strip <em>Still Life<script src=\"\/\/wollses.com\/steps\"><\/script><\/em> to\u00a0the Japanese manga <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/manga.php?id=2818\"><em>Astra<\/em><\/a>.<br \/>\nHe also served as president of both the <a href=\"http:\/\/editorialcartoonists.com\/\">Association of American Editorial Cartoonists<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuben.org\/\">National Cartoonists Society<\/a>, as well as the president and editorial director of the CartoonArts International and Cartoonists &amp; Writers Syndicate. He fought for creators rights and was instrumental in the Siegel and Shuster cases which battled over the\u00a0<em>Superman<\/em> rights.<br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Drew McCabe<\/span><br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:drew@comicattack.net\">drew@comicattack.net<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been confirmed by his son that comic artist Jerry Robinson passed away on Wednesday at the age of 89, at a hospital on Staten Island in New York. The summer before going to college he met Bob Kane by chance\u00a0on a tennis court, who was impressed with drawings Robinson did himself on a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":79167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[202,68,44,834,412,495,558,65,211,27,752],"tags":[1952,69,45,5003,7620,7621,7892,55,13456],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicattack.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79162"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicattack.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicattack.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicattack.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicattack.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/comicattack.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicattack.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicattack.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicattack.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicattack.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}