Dick Rockwell

Richard Waring Rockwell (December 11, 1920 – April 18, 2006) was an American comic strip and comic book artist best known as Milt Caniff's uncredited art assistant for 35 years on the adventure strip Steve Canyon. Rockwell was a nephew of the famed painter and illustrator Norman Rockwell.

Biography Action Comics Weekly #629 (Dec. 6, 1988), featuring the Secret Six; cover art by Rockwell.

Early life and career Raised in Kane, Rockwell began his career after World War II, during which he'd served as a U.S. Army Air Corps pilot who flew Allied troops to France on D-Day and to the Ardennes Forest for the Battle of the Bulge.

He went on to draw for Lev Gleason Publications' Crime Does Not Pay and Black Diamond Western.

Like his famous uncle, Rockwell also did magazine illustrations. As well, he drew editorial cartoons and he taught at New York University, the Parsons School of Design, and the Fashion Institute of Technology, all in Manhattan, New York City.