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filkertom ([personal profile] filkertom) wrote2005-01-04 11:39 am

Will Eisner Passes Away

Damn, damn, damn, damn, damn. Sontag, Chisholm, Freas.

Now Will Eisner, creator of The Spirit.

News and bio at Newsarama.

Damn.

[identity profile] nubianamy.livejournal.com 2005-01-04 04:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Ouch. That's quite a loss. =(

Geez...

[identity profile] romlc475.livejournal.com 2005-01-04 05:22 pm (UTC)(link)
I think I'm going home from work early sick to my soul.I don't think we can say "Damn" enough lately for the mounting losses...:(

[identity profile] teddywolf.livejournal.com 2005-01-04 05:26 pm (UTC)(link)
I knew it was bound to happen eventually. I'd hoped to have him autograph my copies of his graphic novels but I knew there wasn't much chance.

I still have much of his stuff to read, though, and I am thankful for that. Hey, he made it to his 90s and kept drawing pretty much the whole time.

[identity profile] unclelumpy.livejournal.com 2005-01-04 06:19 pm (UTC)(link)
"Damn" is not the word...

I'm not sure a fitting word even exists.

[identity profile] wayward-va.livejournal.com 2005-01-04 06:24 pm (UTC)(link)
I get this weird feeling that a lot of good people who wanted to see the twenty-first century took a look and decided it was not a place they could live. Foolish, I know, but it's the vibe that runs thru all this. Good people have seen the future and decided it was not for them.

I think it was Yogi Berra who said "The future isn't what it used to be."

-----wayward

Well, if ya need some cheering up, Tom...

[identity profile] unclelumpy.livejournal.com 2005-01-04 06:33 pm (UTC)(link)
David Simpson, the guy I told you about, who makes that "I Drew This" comic... He'll be giving a concert in Aye-Squared this Wednesday...

"I'll be playing at the open mic at the Alley Bar in Ann Arbor. (It's on Liberty Ave., just across from Starbucks--not the Starbucks by Borders, the other Starbucks.)
It's Wednesday night at 9, though it's unlikely I'll be all that punctual."

You two have SO got to meet! And if you need to break the ice, just bring your guitar along and play "Happy Conception Day". He'll like you already!

[identity profile] hitchkitty.livejournal.com 2005-01-04 06:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Insert Carlin's Seven Words Here.

I knew he'd just recently had a quadruple bypass done -- as has my father -- but this still comes as a nasty surprise.

I can only imagine what Scott McCloud's reaction was.

[identity profile] selenesue.livejournal.com 2005-01-04 08:16 pm (UTC)(link)
May his Spirit live forever! 8'-(

[identity profile] trdsf.livejournal.com 2005-01-05 05:36 am (UTC)(link)
Okay, that's it, I officially declare that 2005 sucks, I don't care if we're only five days in.