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(1928 - 14/7/2000, USA) Alvin Hollingsworth was an Afro-American comic book artist, active in the field during the 1940s and 1950s. Born in New York City, he was a high school classmate of Joe Kubert's at the High School of Music and Art. By the age of twelve, he was working as an assistant at Holyoke Publishing Company and helped on Catman Comics. A year later he began doing illustrations for crime comics. Hollingsworth drew for several companies until the mid 1950s, including Fox ('Bronze Man', 'Rulah Jungle Goddess'), Fiction House ('Suicide Smith'), Feature Comics (romance), Spotlight (war), Story Comics (crime) and Trojan (crime and romance). In the mid 1950s, he worked on newspaper comics like 'Kandy' (Smith-Mann Syndicate), 'Scorchy Smith' (Associated Press) and 'Martin Keel' (with George Shedd). Hollingsworth left the comic strip field to pursue a career in the world of fine art. From 1980 until his retirement in 1998, Hollingsworth was a full Professor of Art at Hostos Community College of the City University of New York.

Alvin C Hollingsworth, a native New Yorker, is a retired CUNY professor of art.

He is noted by Jeanne Siegal in Artwords as one of the leading painters in the country. Hollingsworth's works are in the collections of IBM, Chase and the Brooklyn Museum, as well as many private collections nationwide.

He recently held a show in New York, sponsored by the Georgia McMurray Group, entitled "Visions of Life," which included his religious, psychological and jazz images, as well as scenes of women.