Archie Artist Tom Moore Passes Away

Tom Moore, a veteran cartoonist best known for his work for Archie Comics and on the 1987 Jughead relaunch, has passed away, according to the El Paso Times.

"Tom was very funny and had a knack for putting together really great, hilarious gags and special pages when he worked at Archie," said Archie Editor-in-Chief Victor Gorelick. "He was probably best known here for inking our Jughead relaunch decades ago. We're all sad to hear this news and wish his family the very best during this time. He was a cartoonist's cartoonist."

Moore, who passed away at 86, worked for roughly thirty years on and off with the Riverdale gang, from 1953 until his retirement in the late 1980s. He worked monthly, although the Comic Book Database has only a handful of his credits as writer, penciller, inker and letterer listed due to the incomplete nature of the Database's Archie Comics records for much of that time.

Moore's career, like many others of his era, started in the military, where he created the popular Chick Call strip that ran in U.S. military publications during the Korean War.

Moore worked on Archie from 1953 until 1961, when he took a break to work in public relations. He returned to illustration in 1970 with projects like Underdog and Mighty Mouse, and was tapped to help reinvigorate Jughead in the '80s. He continued to work at Archie until he retired.