Tag Archive | "obituary"

Maurice Sendak, RIP

Tuesday, May 8, 2012

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Terrible news for all lovers of books – the great Maurice Sendak has passed away at the age of 83, from complications arising from a recent stroke according to the NY Times article. It’s impossible to overstate the towering influence Sendak has had – quite probably the pre-eminent illustrator of children’s books in the last [...]

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RIP Ralph McQuarrie

Monday, March 5, 2012

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Sad news breaking across the web this weekend: iconic, award-winning Star Wars concept artist Ralph McQuarrie has passed away at the age of 82. Of course Ralph worked on many other projects over a long and distinguished career, including animations reporting on NASA’s history-changing Apollo missions, Cocoon, ET, the original Battlestar Galactica, Star Trek and [...]

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Ronald Searle, RIP

Tuesday, January 3, 2012

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Sad news just starting to filter out online that we have lost gifted cartoonist and master of St Trinians, the great Ronald Searle. Bloghorn’s Twitter was saying they were hearing reports that the famous British cartoonist had passed away, then a few minutes later Dan Berry spotted confirmation of his death on the BBC news [...]

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Anne McCaffrey, RIP

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

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(Anne McCaffrey, pic borrowed from Suvudu) The Twitterverse this evening started passing around news that Anne McCaffrey, one of the great writers of science fiction and fantasy, had passed away. I couldn’t find any confirmation online until just a few moments ago – James Long directed me to Tor and I see noted SF publisher [...]

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Mick Anglo – 1916-2011

Saturday, November 12, 2011

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Earlier this week we received news of the death of Mick Anglo, the British comics writer, artist, editor, and publisher, most famous for his association with the creation of the comic character Marvelman. Anglo died, aged 95 on 31st October 2011. Pádraig Ó Méalóid has kindly produced this extensive obituary for the FPI Blog. Mick [...]

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Dylan Williams passes away

Sunday, September 11, 2011

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Just a few days ago (see here) we repeated a call that a lot of folks in the comics community were making, that our wee community would rally round and support the very fine Indy publishers Sparkplug by picking up some of their interesting titles, to help publisher and cartoonist Dylan Williams and the inevitable [...]

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We just lost a comics legend; Gene ‘the Dean’ Colan passes away

Friday, June 24, 2011

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(Doctor Strange and The Thing in this lovely piece by the great Gene Colan, borrowed from Cartoon Flophouse) We’re all deeply saddened to hear that one of the great legends and icons of the comic world, Gene Colan, has passed away at the age of 84. His friend (and I think also his art agent?) [...]

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RIP, Jeffrey Catherine Jones

Thursday, May 19, 2011

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Some sad news just breaking that the wonderful artist Jeffrey Catherine Jones has passed away; there aren’t many details emerging yet as to the cause, but a growing number of sites are reporting it, including Comic Reporter and Michael Netzer (whence comes the short video below) and the artist’s Wiki has just been updated to this [...]

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Carlos Trillo passes away

Monday, May 9, 2011

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Sad news to day via Matteo Stefanelli at FumettoLogic, that the Angoulême and Yellow Kid award-winning Argentinian comics creator Carlos Trillo has passed away in London. He had a long and distinguished career, working with various collaborators over the years, including the likes of Alberto Breccia and Jordi Bernet. I still have a bit of [...]

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“A tear, Sarah Jane?”

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

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“A tear, Sarah Jane? No, don’t cry. While there’s life, there’s…” The last words the late, great Jon Pertwee’s third Doctor spoke to Elisabeth Sladen’s Sarah Jane Smith before regenerating. I think a lot of Doctor Who fans of a certain age will recall that scene and understand the sad relevance of it tonight: it’s [...]

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Diana Wynne Jones passes away

Monday, March 28, 2011

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(Diana with adorable kitty, pic borrowed from and (c) her author-approved fan site) I missed hearing about this at the weekend until a friend in my SF book group mentioned it to me – very sad to report that the wonderful fantasy author Diana Wynne Jones has finally succumbed to her long fight against cancer. [...]

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The Brigadier no more: Nicholas Courtney passes away

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

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Very sad news for all Doctor Who fans today, especially those of us of a certain age who grew up with the original incarnation of the world’s longest running science fiction series – the great Nicholas Courtney, best known for his role as Brigadier Alastair Lethbridge-Stewart in the show, has passed away at the age [...]

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“Don’t call me Shirely”: Leslie Nielsen, RIP

Monday, November 29, 2010

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Sad to hear of the passing of Leslie Nielsen passing away. Originally a serious actor in dramatic roles he underwent something of a mid-career change after the huge success of the comedy Airplane! and the Police Squad TV spoof series which birthed the Naked Gun movies, all still comedy gold even after endless repeat viewing. [...]

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John Callahan passes away

Monday, July 26, 2010

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It’s being reported that noted cartoonist John Callahan has passed away over the weekend from complications related to his long-time parlaysis.  A quadraplegic since a car accident in 1972 he learned (after quitting the bottle) to draw with a pen clutched between both of his hands. His subject matters were darkly humorous and macabre, often [...]

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More on Harvey

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

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(Harvey Pekar reading from the Pekar Project at KingCon) Friend and collaborator of Harvey, Dean Haspiel, points us to the above video and to his thoughts on Harvey in the LA Times: “When I was a teenager, “American Splendor” was the first independently published comic book I ever picked up and Harvey Pekar proved to [...]

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