http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/books/0 ... index.html

Ipsilon wrote:http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/books/07/07/obit.comicartist.ap/index.html

Read that earlier and was shocked. I remember hearing that he was being treated some months ago but then forgot about it when nothing further was reported, thinking that his condition must've improved.

He was one of my favorite artists. The comics industry lost one of their bright young talents.

I think I posted about his death in the celebrity death thread in the Restaurant.

He battled cancer for quite some time, and it contributed to his irregularity as an often-incapable-of-making-a-deadline artist (one of the reasons he concentrated on covers these last few years).

I was never really a fan of his artwork. His men were too sketchy and his men's faces' features were set too small in their squarish heads (all atop a Jim Lee body). The women, by contrast, were all big lipped, giant-eyed (all atop a J. Scott Campbell body) and even more buxom than is the norm for comics. And it always bothered me that he seemed terrified of drawing backgrounds.

Despite my not caring for his work, his diligence in the face of failing health is an inspiration, and as I said elsewhere, bone cancer is a nasty bitch. That people have to suffer through such things is almost unfathomable to me.

(My use of a form of "fathom" was completely accidental. I just noticed it as my arrow was hovering over "Submit.")

Thurston McQ wrote:I think I posted about his death in the celebrity death thread in the Restaurant.

He battled cancer for quite some time, and it contributed to his irregularity as an often-incapable-of-making-a-deadline artist (one of the reasons he concentrated on covers these last few years).

I was never really a fan of his artwork. His men were too sketchy and his men's faces' features were set too small in their squarish heads (all atop a Jim Lee body). The women, by contrast, were all big lipped, giant-eyed (all atop a J. Scott Campbell body) and even more buxom than is the norm for comics. And it always bothered me that he seemed terrified of drawing backgrounds.

Despite my not caring for his work, his diligence in the face of failing health is an inspiration, and as I said elsewhere, bone cancer is a nasty bitch. That people have to suffer through such things is almost unfathomable to me.

(My use of a form of "fathom" was completely accidental. I just noticed it as my arrow was hovering over "Submit.")

I think we can agree that he was a lot better than Liefeld, though.

Agree? We can high-five on that shit.

At least Michael Turner showed some degree of awareness when it came to human anatomy and was at the very least competent and reliable as an artist.