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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2019 20:06:37 GMT -5
RIP to comic creator Howard Cruse, creator of Stuck Rubber Baby and stalwart of the alternative comics scene, who passed after a battle with cancer. He was 75. -M
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Post by beccabear67 on Nov 26, 2019 20:28:21 GMT -5
RIP to comic creator Howard Cruse Oh no. I remember his cartoons from Future Life and Starlog magazines. The king of stipple and shading effects with ink.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2019 21:17:24 GMT -5
dammit.. I saw he passed
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Post by codystarbuck on Nov 28, 2019 12:13:35 GMT -5
He used to do a regular column for the original Comic Scene magazine, which is where I first saw his work. On the strength of that I pre-ordered Stuck Rubber Baby, when it was published by DC. Tremendous work. Got to see more of his stuff, later. We got book collections of some of it, at Barnes & Noble.
Tremendous cartoonist, pioneer for openly gay comic creators, true lover of the medium and seemingly a really great person.
Sad time for comics: Tom Lyle, Gahan Wilson and Howard Cruse.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 29, 2019 19:39:22 GMT -5
He used to do a regular column for the original Comic Scene magazine, which is where I first saw his work. On the strength of that I pre-ordered Stuck Rubber Baby, when it was published by DC. Tremendous work. Got to see more of his stuff, later. We got book collections of some of it, at Barnes & Noble. Tremendous cartoonist, pioneer for openly gay comic creators, true lover of the medium and seemingly a really great person. Sad time for comics: Tom Lyle, Gahan Wilson and Howard Cruse. Tom Spurgeon too. -M
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Post by Deleted on Nov 29, 2019 19:42:10 GMT -5
RIP Seymour Siwoff, a name many won't know but whose work every sports fan is familiar with. Siwoff was the owner and builder of the Elias Sports Bureau, which complied, analyzed and provided statistical information about just about every professional sports league and broadcasters used. He has sold Elias to his grandson in 2018. He was 99.
-M
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Post by Mister Spaceman on Dec 1, 2019 20:09:55 GMT -5
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Post by codystarbuck on Dec 1, 2019 21:20:25 GMT -5
RIP to Australian writer/critic/novelist/essayist, tv interviewer and presenter Clive James. James is probably better known to our UK friends, as he was a fixture on British tv and newspapers. His ITV show, Clive James...on Television was carried, for a time, on PBS stations. He wrote hilarious criticism of tv and literature, wrote poetry, essays and novels, interviewed celebrities, presented documentaries...all kinds of things. He was tremendously witty and literate and was a rare treat in a world where you tended to get the fawning interviewer or the "Oh so serious" critic. I still recall the first time I saw one of his shows. He was interviewing Stephen Fry, who I knew from The Young Ones, Blackadder, a Bit of Fry & Laurie and was just seeing in the PBS broadcasts of Jeeves and Wooster. He and Fry were having a discussion and Fry brings up a line in one of the Bond novels where Fleming said that it was noted that homosexuals couldn't whistle (in Dr No) and Fry tries to whistle and fails. It was the first time I heard him openly say he was gay. It was a minor moment in the conversation, which was both hilarious and insightful, with two intensely funny and intelligent men.
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Post by foxley on Dec 1, 2019 22:31:44 GMT -5
RIP to Australian writer/critic/novelist/essayist, tv interviewer and presenter Clive James. James is probably better known to our UK friends, as he was a fixture on British tv and newspapers. His ITV show, Clive James...on Television was carried, for a time, on PBS stations. He wrote hilarious criticism of tv and literature, wrote poetry, essays and novels, interviewed celebrities, presented documentaries...all kinds of things. He was tremendously witty and literate and was a rare treat in a world where you tended to get the fawning interviewer or the "Oh so serious" critic. I still recall the first time I saw one of his shows. He was interviewing Stephen Fry, who I knew from The Young Ones, Blackadder, a Bit of Fry & Laurie and was just seeing in the PBS broadcasts of Jeeves and Wooster. He and Fry were having a discussion and Fry brings up a line in one of the Bond novels where Fleming said that it was noted that homosexuals couldn't whistle (in Dr No) and Fry tries to whistle and fails. It was the first time I heard him openly say he was gay. It was a minor moment in the conversation, which was both hilarious and insightful, with two intensely funny and intelligent men. R.I.P. indeed.
He was well-known here in his native Australia, and was regarded as something of a national treasure. He exported that wonderful dry Australian sense of humour (quite different to 'broad' humour many Aussies abroad display). He had the Australian gift for self-mockery, and never took himself too seriously, and was willing to mock the sacred cows.
People looking to sample his dry wit could do worse than to check out his various volumes of television criticism, of which Visions Before Midnight is the first.
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Post by Confessor on Dec 2, 2019 18:09:32 GMT -5
RIP to Australian writer/critic/novelist/essayist, tv interviewer and presenter Clive James. James is probably better known to our UK friends, as he was a fixture on British tv and newspapers. His ITV show, Clive James...on Television was carried, for a time, on PBS stations. He wrote hilarious criticism of tv and literature, wrote poetry, essays and novels, interviewed celebrities, presented documentaries...all kinds of things. He was tremendously witty and literate and was a rare treat in a world where you tended to get the fawning interviewer or the "Oh so serious" critic. I still recall the first time I saw one of his shows. He was interviewing Stephen Fry, who I knew from The Young Ones, Blackadder, a Bit of Fry & Laurie and was just seeing in the PBS broadcasts of Jeeves and Wooster. He and Fry were having a discussion and Fry brings up a line in one of the Bond novels where Fleming said that it was noted that homosexuals couldn't whistle (in Dr No) and Fry tries to whistle and fails. It was the first time I heard him openly say he was gay. It was a minor moment in the conversation, which was both hilarious and insightful, with two intensely funny and intelligent men. Yeah, a real shame. I used to enjoy Clive James' TV programs a lot.
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Post by foxley on Dec 3, 2019 3:59:33 GMT -5
RIP to Greedy Smith; vocalist, keyboardist, harmonicist and songwriter with Australian pop/new wave band Mental As Anything. Greedy wrote many of their hits, including what was possibly their greatest hit "Live It Up". Earlier this year, Greedy and his band mate Martin Plaza were announced as the 2019 Australian Songwriters Hall of Fame Inductees.
Greedy died of a heart attack on on Dec. 2 2019.
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Dec 3, 2019 8:46:41 GMT -5
Yeep. This is the first person who knows that I exist in the RIP thread. I figured us comic bloggers lived forever? He was an amazingly fast and organized writer. That one hit hard.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 3, 2019 15:11:49 GMT -5
RIP DC Fonatna, prolific Trek and sci-fi writer. She was 80.
-M
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Post by Deleted on Dec 3, 2019 16:19:35 GMT -5
I met her in Vancouver B.C. and had a ball listening to her talking about Star Trek and she was very entertaining and insightful. That's when she in her mid 60's and it was a fun evening to sit back and soaking it all in. DC Fontana
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Post by beccabear67 on Dec 3, 2019 20:21:03 GMT -5
She did good work! I remember being surprised to see Andre Norton looked a lot like one of my grandmothers, so I'm sure some Star Trek viewers were (pleasantly) surprised meeting D.C. Fontana for the first time back in the day. I remember not knowing one of my favorite short story writers in the magazines, James Tiptree Jr., was a she.
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