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Post by chadwilliam on Nov 8, 2019 14:32:20 GMT -5
chadwilliam ... My niece that lives in Los Angeles met him once and she was felt some sympathies to him about 10-12 years ago and admired him with some balance and caring of Superman's love to that character. She wished that DC Comics comes to his aid and provide him with some support and all. That's never came 10-12 years ago and still roaming around in that costume of his. I really felt bad for him and I saw him in a distance and hurrying to meet my family at a restaurant and I wanted to meet him too and give him a few dollars of my own but couldn't not to. That's was in 2001 ... 18 years ago. Thanks Mecha. From what I've read it seems like he had his problems but was a nice guy with people. I remember reading that when Elvis died the pastor at his funeral said "I never lost the battles he did, but then again, I wasn't fighting the same war". I tend to think back to that during moments such as these.
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Post by Rob Allen on Nov 8, 2019 15:57:19 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Nov 13, 2019 22:54:40 GMT -5
RIP Tom Spurgeon, comic historian, former editor of the The Comics Journal, and writer of the blog The Comic Reporter. He was only 51. He worked out of Columbus, OH, so was part of our local comic scene, and was one of the executive directors of Cartoon Crossroads Columbus. Spurgeon with Jeff Smith... -M
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Post by Mister Spaceman on Nov 13, 2019 23:02:02 GMT -5
^^Terrible news about Tom Spurgeon. Much too young. His voice will be missed.
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Post by beccabear67 on Nov 14, 2019 14:49:06 GMT -5
Sorry to learn about this, 51 is awfully young, knowing of too many people I knew younger than me who are now gone it seems the last few years.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 17, 2019 0:43:54 GMT -5
RIP Vera Clemente, widow of Roberto Clemente, chairman of The Roberto Celemente Foundation and goodwill ambassador for baseball. She was 78.
-M
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Post by EdoBosnar on Nov 19, 2019 14:56:12 GMT -5
Just saw on FB that Walt Simonson reported the passing of artist Tom Lyle, who had already been in a medically-induced coma since October. More information here.
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Post by shaxper on Nov 19, 2019 15:08:47 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2019 14:34:27 GMT -5
Condolences to Joe Bennett artist of Immortal Hulk. His son Erik passed away a few weeks ago. As a father I can not imagine the grief he and his wife are experiencing
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Nov 22, 2019 13:09:52 GMT -5
Seeing numerous reports on Twitter that Gahan Wilson has passed away. Haven't seen an official source yet though. Apparently his passing has been confirmed by his step-son Paul Winters.
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Post by Mister Spaceman on Nov 22, 2019 15:25:26 GMT -5
RIP to a true original.
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Post by Prince Hal on Nov 22, 2019 15:55:35 GMT -5
I wish I could find my favorite on line somewhere.
Here's a description of it that may jar loose another memory, taken from an article I found looking for the cartoon:
"The cartoon showed a restaurant kitchen... In the middle of the kitchen sits a meat grinder, a perfectly normal meat grinder with a lot of perfectly normal ground meat coming out of it. The only abnormal thing is that there's so damn much of it: at least 150 pounds or so, enough meat to build your own cow. Too much meat.
Then you look up and you see there's a man's arm sticking out of the end of the grinder, with the hand gripped sweatily around the handle turning away for dear life, or death. The hand is turning and the grinder is grinding and somewhere in between there's the owner of the hand, who is quickly turning himself into so much ground round. And over in the corner there's the suave detective, with a little moustache and a twenty-below-zero stare watching perfunctorily. Looking at the owner a weasily [sic] guy who is paying to attention to the grinder, the detective rattles in his just-the-facts-ma'am-I've-got-to-finish-my-report-before-dinner voice:
"Most determined case of suicide I've ever seen."
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Post by Mister Spaceman on Nov 23, 2019 15:23:36 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Nov 23, 2019 18:33:43 GMT -5
He was a good character actor and I wished he did more TV work ... one of my favorites are Herbie, Girl from Uncle, Bonnie and Clyde as Moss, and Bug Bailey in Dick Tracy.
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Post by codystarbuck on Nov 23, 2019 18:38:58 GMT -5
Loved Wilson's cartoon work, enjoyed Pollard's acting work. Used to have one of the older Playboy collections and Wilson appeared throughout it; unique artist.
Loved Pollard in all kinds of things, from Star Trek to Bonnie & Clyde to Roxanne (the Sarte-loving firefighter). The Mxyzptlk episode of Superboy was one of the few I actually saw.
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