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Re: First 'Ringo, now Michael Turner is gone.
Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 8:12 am
by vynsane
no biggie. i'm hoping with the changes at newsarama, people will be looking for a new site to go to to complain about comics...
Re: First 'Ringo, now Michael Turner is gone.
Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2008 10:55 am
by anarky
Sad news.
It's sad when any comic artist whose last name doesn't rhyme with piefeld leaves us.
Didn't he do a lot of the Marvel Universe trading cards about 15 years back?
Re: First 'Ringo, now Michael Turner is gone.
Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 12:15 pm
by Rollo Tomassi
Thanks for all the great art, Mike.
Whilst in Iowa, I was reading some old issues of Wizard from 1997, and they had an article on Jim Lee and his thoughts on the top ten hot new artists to watch. Number 10 was Wieringo. 9 was Turner. It was kind of freaky because I had read about Turner passing literally hours earlier.
(8 was Alex Ross, so I expect him to keel over shortly...)
Re: First 'Ringo, now Michael Turner is gone.
Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 12:35 pm
by vynsane
Rollo Tomassi wrote:(8 was Alex Ross, so I expect him to keel over shortly...)
<stan and kyle voice>OH MY GOD, THEY KILLED ALEX ROSS!!!</stan and kyle voice>
get crackin' on your celebrity death list, before i take this one...
Dwayne McDuffie R.I.P.
Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2011 3:35 pm
by Rollo Tomassi
Longtime comics writer Dwayne McDuffie died today. I am in shock, especially since he's been in the comics press so much recently because his Animated Apaptation of Grant Morrison's All-Star Superman is being released soon.
McDuffie first hit my radar with his irreverant Damage Control series for Marvel. he later went on to revamp Deathlok as a pacifist trapped in a killer cyborg's body (still my favorite version). Then he co-created the Milestone Universe at DC which focused on minority characters like StaticShock. He recently had runs on Fantastic Four (when Black Panther and Storn joined the team) and JLA.
He was also heavily involved in the Animated universe, as a producer on the Justice League Unlimited show, and one of its regular writers. And more recently as a writer on many of the new DC Animated Films coming out.
Damn. He will be missed. RIP Dwayne.

Re: Dwayne McDuffie R.I.P.
Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2011 4:10 pm
by anarky
The. Fuck?
Damn, that's a shock and a shame.

Gene Colan RIP
Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2011 9:21 am
by Diabolical
Surprised it hasn't been mentioned.
Colan died on June 23, 2011, following complications from liver disease and a broken hip received in a fall.
Best known for runs on Daredevil, Howard the Duck and Tomb of Dracula, and co-creating Falcon, Marvel's first black hero, and vampire hunter Blade.
Re: Gene Colan RIP
Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2011 12:03 pm
by jjreason
THE Daredevil artist as far as I'm concerned, but his work was all over the Marvel U. Sad indeed.
The list of artists who could make Stilt Man actually look like a bad guy has shrunk by one forever.

Re: Gene Colan RIP
Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2011 2:36 pm
by anarky
We didn't bring it up because we were too sad. Still are.

Re: Gene Colan RIP
Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2011 8:39 pm
by Rollo Tomassi
For some reason, my collecting habits and Colan's work hardly crossed paths back in the 80s and 90s. He was working primarily at DC then on books I wasn't reading. And by the time I restarted in 2003 his output was minimal. The first book I distinctly remember him on was a fill-in issue of Iron Man. There was a cover of a Hulk issue. And Wolverine 9.
But I once saw this book whilst rifling through some back issues (it was way out of my price range) and was blown away.

Re: Gene Colan RIP
Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2011 10:40 pm
by jjreason
That's a pretty righteous Iron Man indeed. Iconic, I believe is the word.
R.I.P. and Thanks for Everything
Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2012 10:20 am
by Rollo Tomassi
Sheldon Moldoff passed away at age 91.
He, along with Bill Finger, Jerry Robinson, and a bunch of other talented chaps (NONE OF WHOM are Bob Kane!!) created Batman as we know him.
Thank you Shelly, you wonderful man.
Re: R.I.P. and Thanks for Everything
Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2012 10:41 am
by RoIIo Tomassi
The Shelly in my collection is comparatively small.
Search Results
Your search: Sheldon Moldoff
Creators:
Moldoff, Sheldon - 'Shelly': 80 Page Giant (1964) #5 - "BATMAN Silver Anniversary Issue"
Moldoff, Sheldon - 'Shelly': 80 Page Giant (1964) #12 - "BATMAN The Strange Worlds Of Batman And Robin!"
Moldoff, Sheldon - 'Shelly': Adventure Comics (1938) #325 - "Lex Luthor Meets The Legion Of Super-Heroes!"
Those 80 Page Giants were just mega reprints of random earlier stories in no discernible order.
It is a source of eternal contempt for me, the rank villainy of Kane passing so many people's work off as his own and WB/DCs complicity in perpetuating the ruse.
Re: R.I.P. and Thanks for Everything
Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2012 6:52 pm
by RoIIo Tomassi
Jean "Mœbius" Giraud died.
That's a bummer.
Re: R.I.P. and Thanks for Everything
Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2012 12:00 pm
by Rob Liefeld
RoIIo Tomassi wrote:Jean "Mœbius" Giraud died.
That's a bummer.
Eh. I looked him up (never heard of the guy before), and his artwork was neither AWESOME! nor EXTREME! Not saying it's a good thing when someone dies, but he was no Steven Platt.