Linda Fite

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Linda Fite is an American writer and editor who created the Marvel Comics series The Cat, and who while serving as an assistant to Marvel editor-in-chief Stan Lee, helped bring fledgling artist Barry Windsor-Smith to the company by responding with an encouraging note to some art he had sent to the Marvel offices. The note prompted Smith and a friend to fly from England and camp out near the Marvel Comics offices ("Alias Barry Smith", an interview with Barry Smith conducted by Jon Cooke, Comic Book Artist no. 2, 1998, excerpted on-line at http://www.twomorrows.com/comicbookartist/articles/02bws.html).

Fite wrote and helped produce the four-issue run of Marvel's Claws of the Cat, an early and unsuccessful attempt to produce a female comic-book action character. Other Marvel titles for which she wrote stories included "The Uncanny X-men," "Rawhide Kid" and "Night Nurse." She also wrote and illustrated a one-page story for an East Coast independent/underground comic published by Flo Steinberg, "Big Apple Comix" (Sept. 1975).

Fite works for the Times Herald-Record, a daily newspaper based in Middletown, New York.[1]

Fite was married to Marvel Comics artist Herb Trimpe,[2] with whom she has three children.[3] The couple divorced in December 2005 after 33 years of marriage.[4]

[edit] Footnotes

  1. ^ Times Herald-Record: "Linda Fite" search results and Linda Fite personnel page
  2. ^ Trimpe, Herb, "Old Superheroes Never Die, They Join the Real World", The New York Times education supplement, January 7, 2000, via HulkLibrary.com
  3. ^ Porch Dogs: "The Illustrators - Herb Trimpe"
  4. ^ NationMaster.com: "Encyclopedia: Linda Fite"