At 97 years old, Ramona had only recently retired from producing new artwork. She focused on special commissions and projects like the variant cover she produced for Wonder Woman.
Ramona Fradon made her mark in the 1950's and early 1960's where she was the long time principal artist for Aquaman and with writer Bob Haney, co-created Metamorpho, the Element Man.
After a hiatus to focus on raising her daughter, she returned to comics in the 1970's drawing for DC such titles as Plastic Man, Freedom Fighters and Super Friends.
She even got to team up with legendary inker Joe Sinnott to produce an issue of the Fantastic Four.
Ramona Fradon was a trailblazer, a woman working in an industry that was dominated too long by male creators.
For Mark Evanier's recent posts about Ramona Fradon, click here and here. The 2nd post is a great story of how a bunch of artists at a comic book convention came together to ink panels of Fradon's Brenda Starr strip to help with an emergency deadline so she's didn't have to spend the whole day in a hotel room inking them herself. It's a heartwarming story.
God bless, Ramonda Fradon and rest in peace. You were a unique and vibrant talent and you will be missed.
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