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Professionals Obituaries
paw broon:
Francisco Solano Lopez.
Very sad. He did many much loved strips for U.K comics.
http://www.tcj.com/francisco-solano-lopez-1928-%E2%80%93-2011/
More here:-
http://lewstringer.blogspot.co
John C:
Not a comic creator, but Michael Hart was (or should have been) near and dear to all our hearts, here:
http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/michael-s-hart-founder-of-project-gutenberg-has-died/
It could very well be that, without Project Gutenberg's example, we wouldn't see sites like this, the Petrucci Music Library (imslp.us and imslp.org), MusOpen, and probably a bunch of others I'm forgetting that make their name on freely supplying public domain material to a large community.
Yoc:
Very sad news John.
It's true a lot of PD sharing sites like us owe a lot to his early example.
OtherEric:
And one of the great comic book historians:
http://www.comicsreporter.com/index.php/les_daniels_rip/
paw broon:
As a Marvelman fan from way back, when all we could get here were British comics, I was particularly saddened to read this. He did so much for British comics and gave so many young lads such great escapist entertainment.
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/comics/news/a350351/marvelman-creator-mick-anglo-dies-aged-95.html
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