Tag Archive | "obituary"

From our continental correspondent – Jacques Martin, a personal reflection

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

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Last week, Jacques Martin died in his home in Switzerland.  As the creator of Alix and Lefranc he was one of the founding fathers of the Tintin style of Franco-Belgian comics, particularly predominant in the magazine of the same name, and in terms of graphical language and subject matter quite the opposite of the Spirou [...]

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From our continental correspondent: Tibet, creator of Ric Hochet, passes away

Monday, January 4, 2010

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There are nicer ways of starting the new year than by announcing the death of yet another mainstay of European comics.  As the Flemish comic blog Strip Turnhout announced on Sunday, cartoonist Tibet passed away during the night of Saturday, January 2nd, at the age of 78. (Tibet at the 1989 Angouleme Festival, pic borrowed from [...]

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Breaking…. Britanny Murphy dead at 32

Sunday, December 20, 2009

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(Left: Murphy and husband Simon Monjack, pic borrowed from BBC. Right: Murphy’s role as Shellie in Miller’s Sin City) Breaking  news: The actress Brittany Murphy died today. She reported suffered a cardiac arrest at her home in Los Angeles. The cause of death remains undisclosed at this time. She was just 32 years old. Her break [...]

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Dan O’Bannon 1946-2009

Saturday, December 19, 2009

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(Dan O’Bannon picture from an excellent Den Of Geek interview from Dec 2007) News in yesterday that Dan O’Bannon, sci-fi and horror screenwriter, died aged 63, after a short illness. A genuine pioneer in science fiction filmaking, O’Bannon’s film writing is plentiful, but most sci-fi fans will know him as the co-writer of Alien, a film [...]

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A fund for Eric Martin’s daughter

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

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Good friend of the blog and well known character on the Brit comics scene Barry Nugent from the Geek Syndicate Podcast told me about the recent sad news concerning one of his friends and fellow comics podcasters Eric Martin, who he described as ” a great supporter of Geek Syndicate back when we first started [...]

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Robert Holdstock passes away

Sunday, November 29, 2009

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(Rob with his other half Sarah, image borrowed from the Holdstock site) I’ve just heard the sad and shocking news that the multiple award-winning author Robert Holdstock has passed away at the age of only 61 following a spell in intensive care after collapsing earlier this month due to an E. Coli infection. Robert is, without [...]

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Shel Dorf remembered

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

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Mark Evanier remembers Shel Dorf who passed away this week, founder of one of the most famous comics gatherings in the world, the San Diego Comic Con: “It was his friendship with so many heroes that led him to help put on the Detroit Triple Fan-Fairs in the sixties and then, when he moved to [...]

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From our continental correspondent – Jef Nys 1927 to 2009

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

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Jef Nys, the creator of Flemish comic hero Jommeke and one of the most succesful cartoonists in Flemish history, passed away earlier this week. He was born in Antwerp in 1927, and originally wanted to become an engineer.  When he was 16 he started attending art classes in the Royal Academy in Antwerp and turned [...]

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