Art Castillo

(November 3, 1930 – April 19, 1962)

Arthur Castillo (born Arturo Teodoro Castillo) was a cartoonist and fanwriter active in the 1950s whose work appeared in such fanzines as The Journal of Science Fiction, Inside, Habakkuk and Warhoon.

A native of Chicago, Castillo moved to New York, where he shared lodgings with Bill Donaho and belonged to the Fanarchists. For a time, Castillo lived with Trina Robbins, who then used the name Trina Castillo, though they were not married; they moved to the Bay Area in the late ’50s, where they were active in local fandom. He also lived in Mexico for a while, went back to NYC in 1961 and finally moved to Kansas, where he died of colon cancer at age 31.

Castillo was also associated with the Fortean Society, and his artwork appeared in the Fortean magazine Doubt.

• Brief obituary by Walter Breen in Fanac 88 (September 10, 1962, p. 4).
• Death notice, The Manhattan (KS) Mercury, April 20, 1962, p. 2.
• “Art Castillo as a Fortean” by Joshua BluBuhs, From an Oblique Angle, May 25, 2016.
• “The remarkable life of Art Castillo and Moulin Jimmy’s” by Hannah Edgar, Chicago Reader, December 8, 2020: Article about a panoramic mural of caricatures Castillo created in 1955 for Chicago’s Woodlawn Tap, which still existed when the tavern closed during the Covid-19 pandemic. The article mentions that Castillo's archives were in the possession of John Oppenheimer, a longtime friend, then resident of Whidbey Island, Washington.

Art by Art Castillo from Inside 53 (September 1958).

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1930—1962

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