…I salute you

Going through my backups from the olden days, I came upon a couple of drawings I made on the passing of two old masters of comics, Will Eisner and Alex Toth:

I’m not sure they have made it through the intermittent site makeovers, so here they are for posterity!

Gene Colan is dead

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Another of the Great Old Ones have expired. After a long battle with disease, American comics legend Gene Colan passed away yesterday.

His art stood out like a diamond in the dung heap that was ’60s and ’70s US mainstream, never a follower, always a leader.

The creative part of comics is poorer for his passing, and the corporate part is probably planning some hardcover collections already.