Kevin Dillon and Matt Dillon’s great uncle Alex Raymond was the creator of the Flash Gordon comic strip. Raymond’s sister Bea Dillon was the grandmother of Kevin and Matt. Alex Raymond’s other sibling Jim drew Blondie for Chic Young for approximately forty years. In 1933, Alex Raymond, who had been ghost illustrating for Blondie, was tapped, along with writer Don Moore to develop a property to compete with Buck Rogers. Thus was Flash Gordon birthed. Alex Raymond also drew the Secret Agent X9, written by hardboiled noir great Dashiell Hammett. Raymond’s creative output was sadly cut short by an untimely car accident.
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