Edd Ashe

{{short description|American cartoonist}}

Edd Ashe, born Edmund Marion Ashe Jr., (August 11, 1908 – September 4, 1986) was a creator of comic strips and a comic book artist in the United States.{{Cite web|url=https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nb2013026711.html|title=LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies (Library of Congress)|first=The Library of|last=Congress|website=id.loc.gov}} He wrote the strip Guy Fortune that ran in the Pittsburgh Courier from August 19, 1950, until October 22, 1955. He also illustrated The American Weekly.

He was born in Norwalk, Connecticut. His father was an artist and head of Carnegie Tech's art department.{{Cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/a/ashe_edd.htm|title=Edd Ashe|website=lambiek.net}}

He was a white Golden Age comic book artist.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CeDeCwAAQBAJ&q=edd+ashe+african+american+comic+artist&pg=PT145|title=Pioneering Cartoonists of Color|first=Tim|last=Jackson|date=April 21, 2016|publisher=Univ. Press of Mississippi|isbn=9781496804808|via=Google Books}} He and Nathaniel Nitkin created Bomber Burns.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KqHJDwAAQBAJ&q=edd+ashe+non-black&pg=PA263|title=Secondary Superheroes of Golden Age Comics|isbn=9781476638607|last1=Mougin|first1=Lou|date=10 January 2020|publisher=McFarland }}

His second marriage was to Beatrice Bishop in 1941. She was the daughter of a prominent hotelier on Long Island and died February 8, 1983.{{Cite web|url=https://www.pulpartists.com/Ashe.html|title=Catalog|website=www.pulpartists.com}}