Adrienne Roy, whose colorful storytelling was a fixture throughout two decades of Batman and other best-selling DC comic books, lost a year-long battle with cancer on December 14th. The premier DC Comics colorist during the “Bronze Age of Comics” provided dramatic coloring and storytelling for nearly all of the company’s top titles, but is best…
30 years ago today, John Lennon was shot and killed by a person who we aren’t going to name. His influence was huge in the world, and has been immortalized in comics in so many ways, from biographies to being a Skrull super-hero. And most recently, he’s been portrayed in a BBC biopic by Doctor…
According to Anime News Network, Takeshi Shudo, chief writer of the original Pokémon TV series and writer of the first three Pokémon movies, has died at the age of 61, a day after experiencing a subarachnoid hemorrhage at the Nara train station. Developer of the anime series Fairy Princess Minky Momo, Shudo also worked on…
Bleeding Cool reports that Jonny Rench, comics colorist best known for his recent work for DC and Wildstorm, from Batman, Human Target, Midnighter, The Programme and Red Menace, has passed away from a heart attack at the age of 28. His last work appears to be in the now disturbingly titled Welcome To Tranquility: One…
Actor Kevin McCarthy, made famous by his role of Dr. Miles Bennell in Invasion of the Body Snatchers, passed away this past Saturday in Cape Cod; he was 96 years old. McCarthy, who has been acting since 1938, has had an amazingly long career, acting even to this year, with many roles under his belt…
Former Senator Theodore Fulton Stevens and four others died in a plane crash August 9, 2010 in southwest Alaska. Stevens was the Senate’s longest serving Republican, with a political career that spanned from 1961 to 2008. He helped make Alaska the 49th state, and pushed for the construction of bridges, rural water systems, military bases,…
For those who think the cartoons in the pages of Playboy or Hustler are racy, or the cartoon cavalcade of Seth MacFarlane pushes the boundaries of taste… sit down, and get something cold to drink. Last week, the world lost John Callahan, taboo cartoonist extraordinaire. Callahan, a quadriplegic since a car accident at 21, turned…
Cynopsis reports that Peter Fernandez, best known as the American voice of the title character in the Speed Racer television series from the 1960s, died last Thursday from lung cancer. He was 83. Peter also was the voice for Speed’s brother Racer X and other characters for the Japanese anime series that was dubbed in…
Comic-book writer Harvey Pekar, whose autobiographical comic series American Splendor was made into a 2003 Oscar nominated film starring Paul Giamatti as Harvey in addition to Harvey appearing as himself, has been found dead in his Ohio home. He was 70. Cleveland Heights police Capt. Michael Cannon says officers were called to Pekar’s home by…
We are saddened to report the passing of Adrienne Colan, wife of Gene Colan, over this past weekend. Clifford Meth, pictured here at right with the Colans, adds this personal note for his friend. The news hasn’t been great in the Colan home these last few months. If you’ve followed it, and if you’ve read…
Richard “Rik” Levins, a penciller for well over a hundred comic books, passed away June 12, 2010. He died peacefully at the Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Florida. Levins was born on October 15, 1950, in Somerville, New Jersey. He is survived by his wife Sandra, nieces Robin and Lynn, nephew Robert, and great-nephews Kenneth…
Peter Keefe, creator of the 80’s hit sensation Voltron, passed away May 27th, 2010. His brother Chris Keefe had said his brother passed away due to complications from throat cancer. In additional to his brothers Chris and Tony, Mr. Keefe is survived by his wife, Pamela Mills Keefe, a stepson, James Mills; his mother, Anne…
