Education
Born in Quebec Joseph Michel Roy, he immigrated to the United States where he studied at the School of Industrial Art and Pratt Institute.
Born in Quebec Joseph Michel Roy, he immigrated to the United States where he studied at the School of Industrial Art and Pratt Institute.
He is best known for his stories about Native Americans. He used the name Mike Roy on his professional art from the 1940s on. Roy got his first job in comics in 1940, as an assistant to Sub-Mariner artist Bill Everett.
He went on to work on many Golden Age comic books such as Captain America and Crime Does Not Pay.
Roy also did work for a number of publishers, including Atlas Comics, Holyoke Publications, and Archie Comics. Roy is best known for his work on comic strips.
His first strip, for the New York Herald Tribune, was an adaptation of the Leslie Charteris character The Saint, which he drew from 1948 to 1951. He also created the comic strip titled Nero Wolfe in the 1950s, and worked as a ghost artist for Flash Gordon.
In 1964, he created his Indian character, Akwas in a Sunday strip by the same name
Roy"s final work was a hardcover graphic novel,, published posthumously in 1999 by Discovery Comics.