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Al Williamson has reportedly passed away...
darkmark (RIP):
I met Al several times, and once interviewed him for a Dallas cable TV show. We had a really fun time, which means he laughed at my jokes. ;-) Seriously, though, the guy was great. I fell in love with his art after seeing it in FLASH GORDON #1 (and then #5) and loved his Warren work as well. It was ages, seemingly, before I saw his EC stuff. But I knew that his byline signified art that nobody else could quite match. Wish he'd done more penciling in his later years, but when I asked Mark Schultz about it, he rubbed his fingers together in the "money" sign.
As for this being a hard year for GA people...let's face it. Their generation is uncoupling from ours. You're going to see more of their obits, and they won't stop coming. More than a few of my COMICS INTERVIEW subjects died before or soon after their interviews were published. I had to pull my intro from one of them and turn it into a eulogy. All my work to that end was purposed to getting their stories down while they were still alive to tell them. Thankfully, we got Al's. RIP, Baldo Smudge.
narfstar:
Sad thing that our SA generation will be passing in the next 20+ years. At one time that would seem a long time away but not anymore.
JVJ (RIP):
--- Quote from: narfstar on June 15, 2010, 08:18:32 PM ---Sad thing that our SA generation will be passing in the next 20+ years. At one time that would seem a long time away but not anymore.
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Yeah, narf,
when you think about it, there are very few Silver Age artists left. Infantino, Kubert, Colan, Severin, Murphy Anderson, and I hope I'm forgetting several others - but not too many, sad to say. This list actually all got their start in the GA. They were joined in the mid-sixties by Steranko and Adams (probably the only two artists to really enter the field from 1955 to 1966) and at the end by Barry Smith, Kaluta, Wrightson, Jim Starlin, etc.
I've always felt that the SA ended when this last group started working. It became a different medium, IMHO, certainly with a different feel to it..
I do agree with you that we will sadly be seeing more of these icons leaving us in the next decade or so. I wish them all good health and longevity. They've certainly, like Mr. Williamson, provided us with an incredible amount of entertainment and joy over the years.
Peace, Jim (|:{>
OtherEric:
Well, it's not exactly a miss, but we still have two Severins with us. Ditko is still around, and I can think of several other second-tier names. But yeah, the field is getting smaller.
Drusilla lives!:
--- Quote from: JVJ on June 15, 2010, 12:08:20 AM ---My mom has Alzheimer's, Geo,
and it's really a tragic disease. My father recently passed away and she has to deal with the realization of that fact over and over again. My sister won't even tell her that my brother-in-law died earlier this year because she doesn't want to have to "explain" it to my mom over and over. My mom will recognize me, but then suddenly she'll ask some total non-sequitur question that indicates she's forgotten who am I again. It's just very sad.
We cope.
Peace, Jim (|:{>
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Sorry to hear of this JVJ, I sorta know how you feel... I've been caring for my mom (who has a terminal illness) for the last year or so.
--- Quote from: OtherEric on June 15, 2010, 11:18:15 PM ---... Ditko is still around...
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I think Ditko left the building a long time ago... but yes, technically he's still around (in body). ;)
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