RIP Ric Estrada
Artist Ric Estrada passed away last week -- there's an obit retelling his remarkable life at the Salt Lake Tribune. His life included going...
Bea Arthur and Star Wars
http://www.youtube.com/v/uVbCS8vg8m0&hl=en&fs=1
We have failed to properly mark the passing of Bea Arthur, but must now remedy that. As our pal Zena pointed out, there are...
RIP: Jack Cardiff
We're a little under the weather today, so it's late and light, but we had to make mention of this Not Comics obit: The...
RIP Frank Springer
Newsday reports the death last week of veteran artist Frank Springer at age 79.
Springer was a gregarious and practical man who labored for hours...
R.I.P Anne Cleveland
Anne Cleveland, a cartoonist from the '30s to the '50s, whose main subject was college humor and her alma mater, Vassar, has died at...
RIP: Jose “Pepe” Gonzalez
Horror artist Jose Gonzalez has passed away, according to Harris Comics:
It is with great sadness that Harris Comics has learned of the passing...
Weekend Newsy Notes
* Did Dr. Manhattan shoot his load the first weekend?Depending on whom you talked to this week, the opening weekend box office for WATCHMEN...
RIP: Rod Gilchrist
Rod Gilchrist, executive director of San Francisco's Cartoon Art Museum, died of brain cancer at age 58 on February 26th. The SF Chronicle has...
RIP: John Carbonaro
John Carbonaro, a longtime fan-turned publisher when he purchased the rights to the T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents, passed away at age 58 on February 25th, as...
RIP Lux Interior
http://www.youtube.com/v/r3HSO1F7zHM&hl=en&fs=1
Frontman of seminal Psychobilly rock band, The Cramps.
A little bit more on McGoohan
Cartoonist Michael Aushenker sent us a link that provides a bit more information on the enigmatic Patrick McGoohan, who died last week. Aushenker is...
RIP John Updike
Famed novelist John Updike has died at age 76. Besides winning awards and being one of the best prose stylists of recent American letters,...
