RIP: Courtney Utt
Designer Courtney Utt, who was responsible for some of Viz's most distinctive covers, passed away recently at the age of just 37 following a long battle with brain cancer.
You can see much of...
RIP: The Ultimate Warrior
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xR08M6EUd0g
Only a day after recording this promo, the man known as The Ultimate Warrior is dead at age 54.
Born Jim Hellwig, the masked wrestler eventually changed his name legally to Warrior. One of...
Steve Moore 1949 – 2014: A Personal Appreciation
Stephen James Moore was born at 2:00pm on June 11th, 1949, in a house on Shooters Hill in South London, where he lived all of his life, and died on or around the 16th...
RIP: Oderus Urungus
The Gwar frontman is dead at age 50. Gwar had a big comics crossover of inspiration and I know they played Comic-Con several times.
Photo via Diabolique Magazine
RIP: Steve Moore
Via Strange Attractor Magazine comes word that writer Steve Moore has passed away at the age of 65. Moore was a prolific comics writer, as well as an early editor of and contributor to...
RIP: Bhob Stewart
Pioneering comics journalist Bhob Stewart has passed away after a lingering illness. His website is here, but tributes are piling up on his FB page.
Stewart was one of the very first "fan" writers...
RIP: Bill Baker
Over the weekend I was extremely saddened to read of the death of comics writer and historian Bill Baker. He was 55 years old. The cause of death was pneumonia; he died at home.
Baker...
RIP: Morrie Turner
Morrie Turner, creator of Wee Pals, and the first African-American cartoonist with a nationally syndicated strip, passed away Saturday at the age of 90. He had been undergoing dialysis treatment for kidney ailments....
Gary Edson Arlington (1938-2014), Creator of the Comic Book Store
by Bob Calhoun
Gary Arlington's comic book store on 23rd Street in San Francisco's Mission District seemed more like a feat of engineering than the truly historic place that it was. Stacks of comic books...
RIP: Mae Young
Wrestling Hall of Famer Mae Young died earlier this week, at age 90. She wrestled in 7 decades, as recently as 2010, a record unlikely to be broken with current wrestling lifespans. After...
RIP Peter O’Toole
The late actor was the subject of a pretty good graphic novel called, Hellraisers by Robert Sellers and JAKe (SIC), and adapted from Sellers' prose work of the same name, which featured adventures of...
RIP: Nelson Mandela
The great human rights leader and inspiration for non-violent revolt everywhere has died at age 95. The worlds is unlikely to see his equal for a long time.
Mandela has been the subject of...
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