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== Early life == Norman Keith Breyfogle<ref name="ComicMix">{{cite web |last=Hauman |first=Glenn |author-link=Glenn Hauman |date=September 26, 2018 |title=Norm Breyfogle: 1960-2018 |url=https://www.comicmix.com/2018/09/26/norm-breyfogle-1950-2018/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190517185253/https://www.comicmix.com/2018/09/26/norm-breyfogle-1950-2018/ |archive-date=May 17, 2019 |access-date=July 24, 2024 |work=[[ComicMix]] |df=mdy-all}}</ref> was born on February 27, 1960, in [[Iowa City, Iowa]]<ref name="bio" /> to parents Lois ([[married and maiden names|nΓ©e]] Roberts) and Gerald Breyfogle.<ref name="ECP">{{Cite web|url=https://memorials.ericksoncrowleypeterson.com/Breyfogle-Norman/3616969/service-details.php|title=In Memory of Norman Keith Breyfogle: 1960β2018|publisher=Erickson-Crowley-Peterson Funeral Home|language=en|access-date=October 8, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181008205108/http://www.ericksoncrowley.com/book-of-memories/3616969/Breyfogle-Norman/service-details.php|archive-date=October 8, 2018}} [http://www.ericksoncrowleypeterson.com/book-of-memories/3616969/Breyfogle-Norman/service-details.php (Linked from the cited article])</ref> He had a brother Kevin and a sister Penny Duncan.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2015/02/batman-artist-norm-breyfogle-recovers-from-a-stro.html|title=Batman Artist Norm Breyfogle Recovers From a Stroke With a Little Help From His Fans|first= John|last= Ruch|date= February 2, 2015|work= [[Paste (magazine)|Paste]]|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20181215140416/https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2015/02/batman-artist-norm-breyfogle-recovers-from-a-stro.html|archive-date= December 15, 2018|url-status= live|df= mdy-all}}</ref> Breyfogle began taking private art lessons at the age of twelve, and won an award at a local art show. His family subsequently moved to [[Houghton, Michigan]], and the local newspaper ''[[The Daily Mining Gazette]]'' profiled him in 1976 as "Norm Breyfogle: Near Master Cartoonist at 16". While in high school, he produced ''Tech-Team'',<ref name="BackIssue22">{{cite journal |last=Irving |first=Christopher |date=June 2007 |title=PRO2PRO: Alan Grant and Norm Breyfogle |url=https://issuu.com/twomorrows/docs/back_issue__22 |journal=[[Back Issue!]] |location=Raleigh, North Carolina |publisher=[[TwoMorrows Publishing]] |issue=22 |pages=18β20}}</ref> a comic commissioned by local [[Michigan Technological University]].<ref name="BackIssue22" /> In 1977, he submitted a design for [[Robin (character)|Robin's]] costume, which was published in ''[[Batman Family]]'' #13.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://13thdimension.com/batmans-hot-line-norm-breyfogle-2/|title=Batman's Hot-Line: Norm Breyfogle|last=Greenfield|first=Dan|date=October 3, 2013|publisher=13th Dimension|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180811121712/https://13thdimension.com/batmans-hot-line-norm-breyfogle-2/|archive-date=August 11, 2018|url-status=live|quote=One of the sketches was by a guy named Norm Breyfogle of Houghton, Michigan, printed in #13 of the late, lamented ''Batman Family'' title.}}</ref> Breyfogle attended [[Northern Michigan University]], studying painting and illustration while working as an illustrator for a local magazine and a graphics company. In 1980, he illustrated a book titled ''Bunyan: Lore's Loggin' Hero'', published by Book Concern. He moved to California in 1982. He worked as a draftsman and later as a technical illustrator designing a [[Space Shuttle]] training manual for the United Space Boosters.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.multiversitycomics.com/news/norm-breyfogle-obituary/ |title=Norm Breyfogle, "Batman" Artist, Dead at 58 |last=Garza |first=Matt |date=September 27, 2018 |website=Multiversity Comics |access-date=September 27, 2018}}</ref>
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