Frederick W. Robertson is an American artist and author, best known for his work as a comic book illustrator and writer. He was born in Pueblo, Colorado, and lived there until he was ten years old. He moved to California to attend art school at the University of California, Los Angeles
Read more
In 1936, he moved to New York City, where he studied at the Art Students League under Norman Rockwell and cartoonist Bill Holinshed. From 1940-1943, Robertson worked at the Prince Publishing Company as a comic book penciller and letterer. In 1956, he became one of the first employees of Dell Comics to work directly for Dell himself as an inker/letterer/inker/story editor.
In 1956, Robertson became an associate editor at DC Comics under Julius Schwartz. In 1959, he was made editor-in-chief of DC's "Showcase" #4-6 before being promoted to Co-Publisher in 1960. After a brief stint as a lecturer at New York University's School of Visual Arts, Robertson retired from the comics field in 1969 and moved back east to live with his daughter in her home town of Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina.
Frederick's daughter died from cancer in 2005.