COLUMBIA, South Carolina (AP) — Wearing Superman pajamas and covered with his Batman blanket, comic book illustrator Dave Cockrum died Sunday...
Second-saddest thing in that story: poor friend has the last name “Meth!”
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. :-(
You know you had a good’n when your highlights take longer than your actual years.
aw man, rest in peace.
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?
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.
oh man total RIP—so sad!
If they made the ‘c’ in ‘comics’ lower-case it would (kind of) mean what I Am Curious (George) (Slight Return) says.
yes!! subeditors foolishly taking things upon themselves ONCE AGANE
Awwww...
Superman? Batman?
Take THAT, Marvel merchandising!
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?
Ooh, that looks interesting. Thanks for the link, kit!
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:
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?
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.
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?
neither, really, though Epic came closest for a couple of years in the mid-’80s.