Background
Andre LeBlanc was born in Haiti, but moved to the United States in the 1920s after his father was killed in Cuba.
Andre LeBlanc was born in Haiti, but moved to the United States in the 1920s after his father was killed in Cuba.
He was an instructor at New York"s School of Visual Arts. LeBlanc worked as an assistant with Will Eisner on The Spirit and with Sy Barry on The Phantom. He also contributed to the Flash Gordon, Apartment 3-G and Rex Morgan, Doctor of Medicine newspaper strips.
Returning to the United States in the late 1950s, LeBlanc worked for Hanna Barbera when they had an office on the East Coast.
He worked closely with animator Alex Toth to help create the characters for the animated series Space Ghost as well as The Transformers in the 1970s and 80s. Le Blanc is also known as the illustrator of the 1979 epic Picture Bible published by David C Cooke.
He drew for King Comics" Mandrake the Magician comic book His various features for comic books included Doctor East.Z. Duzit, Intellectual Amos and Morena Flor.
He was a leading illustrator on Edicao Maravilhosa, the Brazilian version of Classics Illustrated.
LeBlanc died on December 21, 1998 in Brazil.