Frank Thorne: Obituary for fantasy comics and Red Sonja artist
The Twilight Zone. Then came the character with which he'd most frequently be associated throughout his career. Thorne began drawing Red Sonja, an offshoot of Marvel's Conan the Barbarian success, in Marvel Feature #2 in 1976, following the legendary Dick Giordano's early work on the character. He then followed Sonja over to her own self-titled series alongside writers Roy Thomas and Clara Noto, and continued working on the character for much of the rest of the decade. As Multiversity notes, he would later describe his time on Red Sonja as an experience that opened up his desire to...