Albert Magarian
(May 28, 1915–May 1, 1991)
Albert Ararat Magarian was half the prominent husband-and-wife artist team who worked as “Magarian” in the 1940s, known for artwork and cartoons in Ziff-Davis pulp magazines, such as Fantastic Adventures and Amazing Stories.
Albert, a native of East Saint Louis, Illinois, studied at Saint Louis University's School of Fine Arts and Washington University and then at Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles, California, where he met fellow student Florence Lillian See. They married on May 25, 1937, in Los Angeles, where he worked for Walt Disney, then moved to Chicago and East Saint Louis during World War II.
They worked together as interior artists for several prozines, later branching out into cartoons and comic books. “Three Eyes in the Dark,” a sketch for a Don Wilcox story, was the first of their stippled black-and-white interior illos appearing from 1941 through 1948. Albert drew the outlines of each piece; Florence did finishing work and added details.
Perhaps erroneously, Forry Ackerman remembered originals of the Magarians’ work being auctioned at Chicon in 1940, donated by Amazing editor Ray Palmer.
After Florence’s death in 1960, Albert, who operated the Deluxe Theater in East Saint Louis, continued to create artwork until his death in 1991.
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