Career
Thorne began his comics career in 1948, penciling romance comics for Standard. After graduation, he drew the Perry Mason newspaper strip for King Features, which was followed by more comic book work for Dell. Thorne wrote and produce the documentary Two Lords and a Lady, about Elizabeth Lee “Aunt Betty” Frazee and The Battle of the Short Hills.
He wrote the novels The Barrington Hall Sketchbook, Drawing Sexy Women, The Crystal Ballroom, and The Alizarrian Trilogy: Nymph, Sprite, Sylph, all published by Fantagraphics Books.
His work as a writer-illustrator has appeared in Playboy, Hustler, Golden Magazine, High Times, and Vanity Fair. Thorne was known during the 1970s for attending comic book conventions in his persona as The Wizard judging Red Sonja Lookalike Contests.
He was born in Rahway, New Jersey and as of 2010 lived in Scotch Plains, New Jersey.
