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Post by Deleted on Mar 20, 2022 22:26:40 GMT -5
The years really do fly by all too quickly, and I often find myself in more recent years attaching stronger sentiment to those classic creators of an advanced age who are not only still alive, but also still producing content even if on a much more limited/sporadic basis.
I was pleased to see Sal Buscema (86 years old) has continued to be active in recent years with the Blue Baron and other Binge Comics work (his most recent art credit is just months ago it looks like). Though I hope in his case and any others it's not for need of money but rather a desire and capability to keep working (sadly I know the opposite can be very much the case for some creators later in life).
Not as current, but also impressive when you consider she is now 95 years old, Ramona Fradon continued to contribute to SpongeBob Comics after her "official retirement" through at least it looks like 2013.
I feel like I want to stay close to anybody else who might be at least in some part active still...who else can this group think of? Or maybe even in advanced age but was still active up until relatively recently and maybe some of their later works flew below the radar.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 20, 2022 23:12:05 GMT -5
Neal Adams who is 80 just came to mind, lots of covers in recent years and illustrated the Fantastic Four Antithesis series in 2020.
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Post by chadwilliam on Mar 20, 2022 23:29:19 GMT -5
Joe Giella started back in 1945 or '46, I believe and was drawing Mary Worth up until 2016.
Al Jaffee holds The Guinness record for "longest comic career" from 1942-2020 when he retired.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2022 0:07:41 GMT -5
Trina Robbins is 83 and still active. She put out Flapper Queens in 2020, not sure if she's put out anything since though.
-M
PS Flapper Queens won an Eisner in 2021.
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Post by foxley on Mar 21, 2022 1:36:36 GMT -5
Mike Grell is 74 and still doing covers.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2022 3:45:14 GMT -5
Joe Giella started back in 1945 or '46, I believe and was drawing Mary Worth up until 2016. Al Jaffee holds The Guinness record for "longest comic career" from 1942-2020 when he retired. Jaffee is 101, wow!! He basically worked up until just shy of his 100th birthday...I'm half that age and already feel like retirement. These are all great examples, thanks!!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2022 3:56:35 GMT -5
John Byrne is - or was - doing X-MEN: ELSEWHEN.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2022 4:00:06 GMT -5
I knew Roy Thomas, who is now 81, was still active with his editing work on Alter Ego, but I didn't realize until looking up now he has some writing credits in the last few years including Red Sonja for Dynamite Entertainment and some additional work for Marvel (as recent as 2020).
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2022 4:04:05 GMT -5
John Byrne is - or was - doing X-MEN: ELSEWHEN. Great call!! I remember when he started to just post the issues on his site since he felt Marvel wasn't going to pick it up, it actually looks way better to me than anything in recent years in the actual X-titles. This is a reminder to me to catch up on the most recent issues he's put out there.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2022 4:21:14 GMT -5
Mike Baron is still cranking out novels, his last one came out just a few weeks ago. In looking up his activity, I just caught that he actually released a Nexus novel in late 2021 that I missed hearing about, just added to the list to read. Jim Starlin was still active as well working on Dreadstar Returns in recent years until that scary accident with the soda-making machine, though fortunately being able to finally recover enough to complete (still need to pick that one up).
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Post by commond on Mar 21, 2022 5:46:57 GMT -5
Quite a few mangaka work into their 80s and 90s. Kinya Ueki died a few years ago, but he was making comics at age 96.
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Post by Dizzy D on Mar 21, 2022 6:02:38 GMT -5
Hermann Huppe (83 years old) published some new work last year, part 16 of Les Tours de Bois-Maury (De Towers of Bois-Maury (Bois-Maury could be translatable as The Dark Forest, but the series has been translated into english by Titan and Dark Horse with the title The Towers of Bois-Maury, so I'm keeping that)). The Man with the Axe www.bedetheque.com/BD-Tours-de-Bois-Maury-Tome-16-L-Homme-a-la-hache-431384.html edit: And apparently he also published an issue of his Western series "Duke" this year.
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Post by MWGallaher on Mar 21, 2022 7:46:28 GMT -5
Jose Delbo is 88, still doing commissions, apparently. Romeo Tanghal, at a young 79, is posting some excellent recent work on Facebook. John Romita is 92, and I saw in some recent Marvel solicitations a piece he did with his son, JR Jr.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2022 7:53:33 GMT -5
Jose Delbo is 88, still doing commissions, apparently. Romeo Tanghal, at a young 79, is posting some excellent recent work on Facebook. John Romita is 92, and I saw in some recent Marvel solicitations a piece he did with his son, JR Jr. I was wondering about Romita, thank you! Did not realize Tanghal was still active, another very familiar name
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Post by kirby101 on Mar 21, 2022 7:59:18 GMT -5
Walt Simonson, 75, is still producing the Ragnarok comic book for IDW.
Jack Katz, 94, recently finished up his First Kingdom series.
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