Professionals Obituaries

[Yoc]

Fran Hopper (Jul 13, 1922 - Nov 29, 2017), Fiction House artist, passed away at age 95 this past November.
A nice write up on her with photos can be read here:


https://www.cbr.com/fran-hopper-marvel-comics-passed-away/

-Yoc

[Geo (RIP)]

Sorry Yoc the addresses don't work as is, I fixed it for you.


Sorry to hear, we are losing all the "old artists", but then again I'm not so young myself.


Geo

[Yoc]

Thanks for fixing it Geo.  Fran had a very long life, give her that.  I wonder if Roy Thomas or anyone got to interview her?

[mopee167]

Raymond L. Miller was born on December 20, 1931 and passed away on Friday, December 15,
2017. Raymond Miller was a resident of Creekside, Pennsylvania at the time of passing. He was
a comics historian and a major information source for comics fandom, known for his
“Information Center” column in the RB-CC fanzine.

http://scoop.previewsworld.com/Home/4/1/73/1012?articleID=204061

[Yoc]

Thanks for letting us know here mopee.
I'm embarrassed to say I wasn't aware of his work before this but he sounds like he would have fit in fine with DCM.

-yoc

[mopee167]

DJ Arneson (August 15, 1935 -- February 1, 2018)

https://www.newsfromme.com/2018/03/21/don-j-arneson-r-i-p/

[mopee167]

Not recent, but not likely to be noted anywhere else, Robert Plate was the writer and Harvey K.
Fuller was the artist of the Homer K. Beagle feature (1945-1948) in Young King Cole for
Novelty Comics.

Robert Plate (July 31, 1918 - May 14, 2005)
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/05/nyregion/robert-plate-dies-at-86-wrote-for-young-people.ht
ml

Harvey K. Fuller  (Sept. 9, 1918 - Nov. 21, 2017)
www.legacy.com/obituaries/theday/obituary.aspx?pid

[mopee167]

Michael Lawrence Fleisher (November 1, 1942 – February 2, 2018). Known for his Superman,
Batman, and Wonder Woman encyclopedias. Also wrote The Spectre and had a long run on
Jonah Hex at DC

http://www.autumn-funerals-cremation.com/obituaries/obituary/2186_Michael_Lawrence_Fleish
er

https://www.newsfromme.com/2018/03/13/michael-fleisher-r-i-p/

[Yoc]

Thanks for keeping us in the loop with what is a sad but inevitable fact about our favourite eras of comic creators.

-Yoc

[mopee167]

BILL LIGNANTE (March 20, 1925 – Feb 27, 2018), Drew The Phantom for Gold Key, King,
and Charlton. Also a courtroom sketch artist for ABC-TV and an animator for Hanna-Barbera.

https://www.newsfromme.com/2018/06/25/bill-lignante-r-i-p/

[erwin-k]

Circa 1971 I saw Bill L.'s appearance on the TV show What's My Line. I recognized his name, but the panelists sure didn't. His "Line" for the show was Courtroom Artist. I do not remember if any of his other work was mentioned. Don't think so.

A busy, talented man. Rest In Peace, sir.

[OtherEric]

Harlan Ellison (May 27, 1934 - June 28, 2018) just passed away.  While he wasn't primarily a comic book writer, he did quite a few.

From everything I've heard about him it's probably better that I never met him.  But he wrote a lot of amazingly good stories.

https://www.newsfromme.com/2018/06/28/harlan-ellison-r-i-p/

[Geo (RIP)]

"Tick-Tock" is the one I remember him writing for comic books. I sure there are others too he did.
- Geo

[Yoc]

and he was a huge comics fan.  I saw him at a convention once.  He was a bit scary but funny and didn't suffer fools as they say.

-Yoc

[erwin-k]

I met Harlan at two conventions in St. Louis, Missouri, in the late 1960's. I did not happen to see his angry side.

WorldCon 1969 was in St. Louis. Harlan was there, as he had been at a smallish local S-F con the year before.

At St. Louis Con he was peddling a fanzine-like booklet titled "The Kong Papers." On the second day of the con (I think) they screened King Kong in the main meeting room.

When Kong killed the T-Rex, from the back of the room came a huge yell of "Yea Kong! Yea Kong!!" It was Harlan, of course.