While Erni Colón is referenced by his work at HArvey comics in this article, I’ll always remember him fondly as the artist on DC’s “Amethyst”. I’m not sure how old he is at this point, but he’s still turning out the work apparently, this time with a comic available at a small museum in Oyster Bay.

Colón and his wife, writer and editor Ruth Ashby, collaborated on A Spy for General Washington, which had its official launch at the museum yesterday at a signing in the middle of a daylong encampment by Revolutionary War British re-enactors.

“I thought it would be a good idea to have a comic book because children usually get pretty bored in museums pretty quickly,” Colón said.

The product has been available for several months in the museum gift shop for $4 and has already been given to some school groups. “It’s great,” executive director Sarah Abruzzi said. “It makes it so much more accessible for the kids.”

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