What is Fred Kida?
'''Fred Kida''' (December 12, 1920 &ndash; April 3, 2014) was a Japanese-American<ref>{{cite book | title = [[Manga: 60 Years of Japanese Comics]] | authorlink = Paul Gravett | first =Paul | last= Gravett | page = [https://books.google.com/books?id=5BnCTYyjWVkC&pg=PA154 154] | year = 2004 | publisher = [[HarperCollins|Harper Design]] | isbn = 978-1856693912 | quote = Signing himself 'Fuje', [artist Bob Fujitani] and his Japanese-American buddy Fred Kida contributed to the war effort by illustrating a flood of comic-book heroes beating up the Nazis and Japanese.}}<!--| accessdate = October 25, 2012 --></ref> [[comic book]] and [[comic strip]] [[artist]]. He was best known for the 1940s [[aviator]] hero [[Airboy]] and his [[antagonist]] and sometime [[ally]] [[Valkyrie (comics)|Valkyrie]] during the [[Golden Age of Comic Books]]. He was born in [[Brooklyn]], [[New York City]], [[New York]]. Kida died from [[natural causes]] on April 3, 2014, aged 93.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/greenwichtime/obituary.aspx?n=Fred-Kida&pid=170557811|title=Fred Kida Obituary|date=April 9, 2014|accessdate=April 13, 2014|work=[[legacy.com]]}}</ref> ==References== {{Reflist}} ==Other websites== * [http://comicbookdb.com/creator.php?ID=3024 Fred Kida] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191102040708/http://comicbookdb.com/creator.php?ID=3024 |date=2019-11-02 }} at [http://comicbookdb.com/index.php The Comic Book Database] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191212192351/http://comicbookdb.com/index.php |date=2019-12-12 }} {{DEFAULTSORT:Kida, Fred}} [[Category:1920 births]] [[Category:2014 deaths]] [[Category:American cartoonists]] [[Category:American comics artists]] [[Category:People from New York City]] {{US-biography-stub}}