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Post by Slam_Bradley on Mar 21, 2024 12:13:02 GMT -5
R.I.P. Vernor Vinge, SF author and three time Hugo winner for Best Novel. Vinge was also a professor of Computer Science and is said to have been the father of the concept of the technological singularity. I've actually never read any of his work. He was becoming a hot commodity in SF as I was leaving the field for other things and I've not had an opportunity yet to catch up with his work. But he was one of the biggest SF writers of his era. |
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Post by codystarbuck on Mar 22, 2024 21:34:40 GMT -5
Also from the literary world, Laurent de Brunhoff, son of Jean de Brunhoff, passed away, at age 98. The elder de Brunhoff was the creator of the seminal children's character Babar, the elephant king and the younger de Brunhoff continued his stories, after his father's death, in1937 and after the war. He was an accomplished painter and learned to imitate his father's style, to continue the work.
The Babar books, by both father and son, were big favorites of my early childhood.
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Post by MRPs_Missives on Mar 23, 2024 14:52:42 GMT -5
RIP to longtime Baltimore Orioles owner Peter Angelos. He was 94. Angelos had a brilliant career as a trial attorney (winning a landmark case against the tobacco industry that result in a $4 billion payout by Phillip Morris and leading the way in pursuing cases helping asbestos victims). He was also the only MLB owner to stand up against the use of replacement players during the 90s strikes (which wound up preserving Cal Ripken Jr.'s consecutive game streak which would have ended 122 games short of the record has replacement players been used instead of actual MLB players to start that season.
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Post by berkley on Mar 23, 2024 16:23:07 GMT -5
R.I.P. Vernor Vinge, SF author and three time Hugo winner for Best Novel. Vinge was also a professor of Computer Science and is said to have been the father of the concept of the technological singularity. I've actually never read any of his work. He was becoming a hot commodity in SF as I was leaving the field for other things and I've not had an opportunity yet to catch up with his work. But he was one of the biggest SF writers of his era. I'm in almost exactly the same boat: heard of him but never got around to trying anything as I had stopped reading SF for the most part some time in the 1980s. I always thought "A Fire Upon the Deep" was a great title so Ilook forward to reading that one in particular. |
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Post by driver1980 on Mar 27, 2024 7:25:30 GMT -5
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Post by MRPs_Missives on Mar 27, 2024 18:06:53 GMT -5
RIP to former CT Senator and candidate for VP ad President, Joe Lieberman, who passed after complications from a fall. He was 82.
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Post by Confessor on Mar 27, 2024 20:30:20 GMT -5
Shame to hear that. I know of Neary from Marvel UK, where he was an artist and editor of various mags (including The Empire Strikes Back Monthly, for which he drew a few covers), and for his artwork in 2000 AD. I think he did a lot of inking on Marvel's The Ultimates too. |
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Post by MRPs_Missives on Mar 27, 2024 20:33:53 GMT -5
Shame to hear that. I know of Neary from Marvel UK, where he was an artist and editor of various mags (including The Empire Strikes Back Monthly, for which he drew a few covers), and for his artwork in 2000 AD. I think he did a lot of inking on Marvel's The Ultimates too. Neary's passing was mentioned in this thread back on Valentine's Day, 4-5 pages back, when it happened, but seemed ot go under the radar of most folks here. -M |
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Post by Confessor on Mar 27, 2024 20:39:48 GMT -5
Neary's passing was mentioned in this thread back on Valentine's Day, 4-5 pages back, when it happened, but seemed ot go under the radar of most folks here. Ah, OK...I missed that. It was the same day as beloved English Radio 1 and 2 DJ Steve Wright died, which was major news in the UK. So, the announcement of Neary's death likely got overshadowed somewhat by that. I also totally missed your post about it in this thread. |
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Post by MRPs_Missives on Mar 27, 2024 20:47:53 GMT -5
Neary's passing was mentioned in this thread back on Valentine's Day, 4-5 pages back, when it happened, but seemed ot go under the radar of most folks here. Ah, OK...I missed that. It was the same day as beloved English Radio 1 and 2 DJ Steve Wright died, which was major news in the UK. So, the announcement of Neary's death likely got overshadowed somewhat by that. I also totally missed your post about it in this thread. No worries. Sometimes this thread gets too busy unfortunately, and things get missed. -M |
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Post by foxley on Mar 28, 2024 0:04:41 GMT -5
R.I.P. to Wing Commander John Bell, the last surviving member of 617 Dambusters Squadron, who has passed away a week short of his 101st birthday.  |
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Post by kirby101 on Mar 28, 2024 13:20:27 GMT -5
One of the founders of the Direct Market and historian of the Comic Book Industry Bob Beerbohm, has passed away at 72.
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Post by MRPs_Missives on Mar 28, 2024 13:33:34 GMT -5
One of the founders of the Direct Market and historian of the Comic Book Industry Bob Beerbohm, has passed away at 72. Very sad news. Bob provided many insightful and thought provoking posts about comics on his social media platforms and I had hoped he would be able to finish his history of the comics industry before he passed. -M |
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Post by Cei-U! on Mar 28, 2024 13:37:44 GMT -5
One of the founders of the Direct Market and historian of the Comic Book Industry Bob Beerbohm, has passed away at 72. I just saw this over on Facebook. I never met Bob in person but he was very helpful to me as I was researching and writing my book. In his later years, he could be combative, even downright unpleasant, in asserting his views on various comics-related controversies but even his detractors couldn't deny the importance of his work in spotlighting the history of the medium prior to the development of the modern comic book in the early 1930s. His death is a profound loss to the world of comics history.
Cei-U! I summon the fallen giant!
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Post by kirby101 on Mar 28, 2024 13:44:45 GMT -5
I visited and then lived in San Francisco in the 70s. His shop, Comics and Comix was integral to my comic book life then.
I enjoyed his posts on Facebook and we never had anything but friendly conversation.
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