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Post by Icctrombone on Mar 30, 2019 13:28:07 GMT -5
RIP Mark Alessi, founder of Crossgen. He passed yesterday morning. -M I was just reading this in the Bleeding cool site. It doesn't say what the cause of death or what age he was. He tried ,boldly, to challenge the big 2 in the late 90's. I think I heard some bad stories about his management style but Maybe one of our CCF members has a more complete story.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2019 13:49:00 GMT -5
RIP Mark Alessi, founder of Crossgen. He passed yesterday morning. -M I was just reading this in the Bleeding cool site. It doesn't say what the cause of death or what age he was. He tried ,boldly, to challenge the big 2 in the late 90's. I think I heard some bad stories about his management style but Maybe one of our CCF members has a more complete story. It doesn't give his age, but does mention he graduated high school in 1971, so you can get a good approximation. It would put him in his mid-60s. -M
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Apr 2, 2019 13:37:53 GMT -5
Hugo and Nebula Award winning author Vonda McIntyre has passed away at age 70. I am not well read in McIntyre's oeuvre. But Dreamsnake was still a pretty huge book when I started reading SF regularly and her short fiction made regular appearances in anthologies.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Apr 2, 2019 15:27:52 GMT -5
Just saw the news about McIntyre elsewhere. So saddening. She was a top-notch writer, and, among many other things, wrote what is perhaps one of the finest SF short stories I've ever read, "Little Faces." RIP, Vonda.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2019 22:05:50 GMT -5
I was only familiar with her stuff through her Star Trek work I read in high school. I enjoyed those quite a bit, and should explore her other work, I just never have.
-M
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Post by Deleted on Apr 3, 2019 14:12:42 GMT -5
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Post by Rob Allen on Apr 8, 2019 16:20:34 GMT -5
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Post by brutalis on Apr 8, 2019 17:10:26 GMT -5
Saw this over the weekend. My mom had me doing paint by numbers all the time when I was young and 1st exploring my artistic abilities. Fond remembrances of summer days spent painting away and how the black velvet paint by numbers all shed the velvet and how much better they were to paint once I scratched off all the velvet.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 8, 2019 23:50:46 GMT -5
Saw this over the weekend. My mom had me doing paint by numbers all the time when I was young and 1st exploring my artistic abilities. Fond remembrances of summer days spent painting away and how the black velvet paint by numbers all shed the velvet and how much better they were to paint once I scratched off all the velvet. My Mom did that too ...
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Post by Deleted on Apr 9, 2019 23:20:52 GMT -5
RIP to comic writer James Hudnall, who passed away this week at age 61. He is best known for Harsh Realm(which Chris Carter turned into a TV series for Fox) and ESPers, and for being one of he architects of Malibu's Ultraverse. -M
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Post by badwolf on Apr 10, 2019 15:29:56 GMT -5
I liked ESPers a lot.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2019 17:10:12 GMT -5
I loved ESPers, and much of the Ultraverse 61 is way too young.
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Post by codystarbuck on Apr 10, 2019 19:58:17 GMT -5
Hudnall was an excellent writer and ESPers is a grossly under-read work. He also did the Lex Luthor: The Unauthorized Biography comic, The Psycho (with Dan Brereton), and, as stated, some of the Ultraverse line.
He suffered from Diabetes, which took a leg, before this. Sadly, he also wrote for Breitbart News (an oxymoron, obviously). I would hope that was for the money and not conviction. I didn't see any of that in his comic work.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Apr 15, 2019 11:43:09 GMT -5
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Post by codystarbuck on Apr 16, 2019 0:09:02 GMT -5
Never read his books but shelved them and sold more than a few of them.
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