Tom Landon writes to ask, and he isn't the only person who's asked me this lately…
I was saddened by the passing of Jerry Robinson and then Joe Simon, not just because I respect their contributions to comics but because we seem to be losing that whole generation of comic book creators. Is Stan Lee now the oldest person alive who's worked in comics?
Nope. Stan was born in 1922 but Sheldon Moldoff, who ghosted Batman for so many years for Bob Kane, and who also drew the first covers for Flash and Green Lantern, was born in 1920.
And Morris Weiss is still, happily, with us. Mr. Weiss was born in August of 1915. He started drawing comic books in…well, he says it was around 1945 after he served in the military but there's stuff in Timely Comics beginning in late '43 that looks like him and was signed "Morris Weiss." Prior to all that, he'd been assisting on various comic strips including Lank Leonard's Mickey Finn. Weiss later went back to assisting on Mickey Finn and took the strip over following Leonard's retirement in '68. Weiss himself retired in 1975.
Here's an article that was published last July about Mr. Weiss. There may be a comic book creator older than him who's still around but I can't think of who that might be.