X-Men illustrator dies in his Superman pajamas

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COLUMBIA, South Carolina (AP) -- Wearing Superman pajamas and covered with his Batman blanket, comic book illustrator Dave Cockrum died Sunday...

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/11/28/comic.death.ap/index.html

― StanM (StanM), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 15:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Second-saddest thing in that story: poor friend has the last name "Meth!"

― nabiscothingy, Wednesday, 29 November 2006 15:18 (seventeen years ago) link

Ok, so he also managed to lose 2 yrs as well: in the highlights it says 65 yrs but in the article 63. Nevermind, RIP. :-(

― nathalie (stevienixed), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 15:20 (seventeen years ago) link

You know you had a good'n when your highlights take longer than your actual years.

― nu_onimo (nu_onimo), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 15:21 (seventeen years ago) link

aw man, rest in peace.

― kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 15:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, that is a shame.

popularize the relatively obscure Marvel Comics in the 1970s

I don't know a lot of comics history, but isn't 'relatively' doing a lot of work here? They may not have been as big as DC, but they were never not 2nd until Image appeared, right?

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 15:24 (seventeen years ago) link

That sentence is totally wrong. Maybe somebody tried to get across to the AP writer that the X-Men title was relatively obscure until Wein/Cockrum, but the writer mistook it to mean the whole Marvel line.

― I Am Curious (George) (Slight Return) (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 15:35 (seventeen years ago) link

oh man total RIP - so sad!

― 69 (pete), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 15:40 (seventeen years ago) link

If they made the 'c' in 'comics' lower-case it would (kind of) mean what I Am Curious (George) (Slight Return) says.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 15:49 (seventeen years ago) link

yes!! subeditors foolishly taking things upon themselves ONCE AGANE

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 15:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Awwww...

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 29 November 2006 16:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Superman? Batman?

Take THAT, Marvel merchandising!

― austin@#$^^&, Wednesday, 29 November 2006 17:52 (seventeen years ago) link

In his favorite chair, under his favorite blanket and in his favorite pajamas? It's not a bad way to go. Wonder if there will be some tributes for him?

― patita (patita), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 19:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Probably not again.

― kit, not "the" kit, Wednesday, 29 November 2006 21:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Ooh, that looks interesting. Thanks for the link, kit!

― patita (patita), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 21:48 (seventeen years ago) link

He was Dark Bamf and very active on his forum:

http://www.nightscrawlers.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?fid=13

He posted about his father passing away just a couple of weeks ago:

http://www.nightscrawlers.com/forum/viewthread.php?tid=6475

― StanM (StanM), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 22:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Many signature characters Cockrum designed and co-created -- such as Storm, Mystique, Nightcrawler and Colossus -- went on to become part of the "X-Men" films starring Hugh Jackman and Halle Berry.

Cockrum received no movie royalties...

WTF?

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Thursday, 30 November 2006 00:56 (seventeen years ago) link

i thought this was going to be like that thread about "Saw producer dies" and then a bunch of riffing on a theme. but hey.

― impermanent rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Thursday, 30 November 2006 05:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Lots of comics creators got the shaft in their employment contracts and hold no rights to their creations. Which one of the major publishers has/had a special line where all of the rights are retained by the creators?

― patita (patita), Thursday, 30 November 2006 05:09 (seventeen years ago) link

neither, really, though Epic came closest for a couple of years in the mid-'80s.

― kit, not "the" kit, Thursday, 30 November 2006 09:27 (seventeen years ago) link

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