The excellent Gerry Alanguilan pays tribute to the late Dave Simons, occasioning along the way a little nostalgia trip as he goes through some of his old comics which Dave inked and also (rightly) lambasting Wikipedia who removed Dave’s page as ‘not notable’ enough. (link via Dirk at Journalista)
June 12th, 2009 at 7:28 pm
This is sad news.
Because he was so well respected as a fine inker, one thing that gets overlooked about Dave Simons’ artistic talents is that he was also a skilled penciller.
Dave provided the pencils for the majority of the graphic novel Wild Stars: The Book of Circles — Recalibrated, and the new 25th Edition features brand new artwork by Dave.
Much of the work he’d produced for Wild Stars was absolutely brilliant, with excellent panel arrangement skills that he’d refined from his years of animation storyboarding, and his spotting of the solid blacks gave his illustrations weight and definition that made them spring off the page. He deftly handled challenging scripts that featured a wide cast of characters, constant scene changes, and transitions.
Dave Simons was massively under-rated as a comics illustrator, a good guy, and a friend.
He will be missed.
Michael Tierney — Little Rocket Publications