Sheri Kaplowitz, a.k.a. Tia Cultir, consultant for Lucasfilm, passed away today after a long battle with complications from multiple strokes. She often couldn’t talk much about the work she did for Lucasfilm, due to the incredibly comprehensive non-disclosure agreement. I always envisioned her as part of George Lucas’s personal Jedi Council, and for all I…
Michael Crichton, the million-selling author of such historic and prehistoric science thrillers as Jurassic Park, Timeline and The Andromeda Strain has died of cancer, his family said. He died Tuesday in Los Angeles at age 66 after a long battle with the illness. Michael started his career writing under the pseudonyms "John Lange" and "Jeffrey…
Neal Hefti, composer of the memorable Batman television theme music, passed away on October 11. He was 85 and had been in poor health for some time his son Paul reported. In a career spanning many decades, the big band trumpeter was finally known for the theme in addition to other memorable film and television…
I liked Paul Newman. I should’ve hated him; bastard was too damn good looking and should’ve given me an inferiority complex. The fact is I didn’t always like how I looked but what I learned was that he didn’t always like the way he looked, either. Newman felt his looks got in the way of…
We here at ComicMix pride ourselves on being not only a comic book site, but also a pop culture site and so we cannot let the passing of House Peters, Jr. go by without noting it. The actor, born January 12, 1916, died from pneumonia on October 1. Who you might wonder? The actor was…
Don Wilder the writer for the Crock comic strip, died this morning at age 74 reports Editor & Publisher. According to King Features Syndicate, which distributes Crock to more than 200 newspapers, Wilder was also drawing and went on to get his bachelor’s degree from East Tennessee State University. The commercial artist began work as…
It is with great sadness that we have to report of the passing of Brian M. Thomsen, science fiction author and editor, perhaps best known to comics fans as the co-author of Julius Schwartz’s autobiography, Man of Two Worlds: My Life in Science Fiction and Comics. Brian was an editor at Warner Books during the…
David Foster Wallace, the novelist, essayist and humorist best known for his dark and ironic wit was found dead Friday night at his home in Claremont California, according to the Claremont Police Department. He was 46. Wallace’s wife found her husband had hanged himself when she returned home about 9:30 p.m. Friday, said Jackie Morales,…
Joan Winston, one of the founders of the very first Star Trek convention, passed away this week. Mark Milton, a relative of Winston’s, posted on a Doctor Who mailing list overnight, “I came home today to learn that Joan Winston, co-founder of the Star Trek conventions, author of Star Trek Lives! and The Making of…
The Associated Press reports the sad news that author Gregory MacDonald died of cancer at his home in Tennessee. Best known as the author of the Flynn books and Kevin Smith’s favorite Fletch books, he wrote 26 books in all. In addition, he served as president of the Mystery Writers of America, and won two Edgar…
AP reports that Bill Melendez, the animator behind the great Peanuts cartoons and the voice of Snoopy and Woodstock, died of natural causes Tuesday in Santa Monica at the age of 91. Besides Peanuts, Melendez also worked on Mickey Mouse cartoons and classic animated features such as Pinocchio and Fantasia for Disney, Bugs Bunny,Porky Pig…
We are incredibly sad to have to report that Robbie Greenberger, son of DC and Marvel alumni and ComicMix contributor Robert Greenberger, passed away on Thursday evening after a months-long struggle with leukemia. He was 20. He is survived by his father, mother Deb, sister Kate, and everyone who knew him, all of whom are…
