Phil La Sorda memorial details
Sharon La Sorda wrote this in the comments but it's worth boosting:
Hello everyone, and again Thank You for all the heart felt stories!
They are really wonderful and loving and sad and funny!! We have...
RIP Phil Lasorda
We've received word that former Comico publisher, Phil Lasorda, passed away yesterday. In addition to running the company which published such titles as MAGE and THE ELEMENTALS, Lasorda was a creator himself, with the...
RIP: Michael Turner
A terribly sad announcement from Aspen has gone out announcing the death of artist Michael Turner, who had been battling bone cancer for the last 8 years. Turner was best known as the artist...
RIP: George Carlin
Everyone may have Post-Convention blahs (or more accurately, Tired of Reading Internet Rumor blahs), but it would be bad to not take a moment and reflect of the loss of the greatest stand-up comedians...
More on Rory Root
§ Comic Relief, which will continue under long-time manager Todd Martinez, has a "Memories" page up to remember founder Rory Root.
§ Tom has a fantastic obituary up with many more memorials from...
A little about Rory
Comics has lost one its great souls in Rory Root. The man seemed timeless and immortal, despite all his health issues, and also ageless, but many people are reporting he was 50. The web...
RIP Rory Root
Numerous sources are telling us that Rory Root has passed away this evening.
Our sincere condolences to his family and his friends. We'll have more later.
RIP Will Elder
Journalista is reporting the death of legendary MAD artist Will Elder at age 86. The Bronx-born Elder went to school at the Manhattan High School of Music and Art where he met the...
RIP Robert Rauschenberg
Legendary Abstract Expressionist Robert Rauschenberg has died at age 82.
A painter, photographer, printmaker, choreographer, onstage performer, set designer and, in later years, even a composer, Mr. Rauschenberg defied the traditional idea that an...
RIP Danton Burroughs
Mark Evanier reports the death of Danton Burroughs, longtime caretaker of Edgar Rice Burrough's estate:
Danton Burroughs — the grandson of Edgar Rice Burroughs and a major force in keeping that man's work alive...
RIP: Ollie Johnston 1912 – 2008
Ollie Johnston, the last of Disney "nine Old Men" animators, and one half of the famed "Frank 'n' Ollie" duo has died, taking with him another piece of history. The "Nine Old Men" were...
