Obituaries

[Thad]

Louis Gossett Jr., 1st Black man to win supporting actor Oscar, dies at 87

[Thad]

Cartoonist Ed Piskor, of Hip-Hop Family Tree and X-Men: Grand Design (CW) has taken his own life following accusations of sexual harassment by two women, one of whom was an underage girl at the time.

[Friday]

What an idiot. He should have instead joined the Supreme Court.

[Büge]

Joe Flaherty.

[Mongrel]

Oh no

D:

Guy Caballero. Count Floyd. Sammy Maudlin. The "Jackass!" guy from Happy Gilmore. Flaherty already lives rent free in my head forever.



To top it off, just yesterday I saw a billboard with Flaherty's fellow SCTV alum Eugene Levy and his son on it and was thinking, "Man, Eugene Levy really is looking damn good for his age."

[Thad]

Mark Bright, an artist who worked on a whole lot of comics back in the '80s and '90s, including Power Man and Iron Fist, and co-created Icon (with Dwayne McDuffie) and Quantum and Woody (with Christopher Priest).

He hadn't done a lot of comics work in the past couple of decades, but Q&W remains one of my all-time favorite series, and it's always a pleasant surprise to pick up an old comic and see Bright's name on it.

Another Milestone creator gone too soon, along with McDuffie, Robert Washington, and John Paul Leon.

[Büge]

Trina Robbins, who designed Vampirella's costume and was the first female artist to work on Wonder Woman. She was also mentioned by name in Joni Mitchell's song Ladies of the Canyon:

[Thad]

Trina Robbins

Damn, we just lost Ramona Fradon a few weeks ago, too.

[Thad]

OJ Simpson.

[Mongrel]

He might have been missed if he'd chosen differently. But he won't be.

[Destynova]

Perhaps bury him in a bronco.

[nosimpleway]

Nah he's fine, they let him go when they realized the coffin didn't fit

[Destynova]

Funeral procession of broncos then. Instead of flowers, send gloves.

[Mongrel]

You know, IMO, it's really pretty impressive that we can think back on that time and still think "what a godawful media circus shitshow of shame" and have that still be valid in The Year of Our Internet, Twenty-Twenty-Four.

[Büge]

It really was the first of its kind

[Niku]

[KingRoyal]

Steve Albini

This one is real rough

[Büge]

Roger Corman.

[Büge]

Wow, that didn't register with anyone?

How about Alice Munro?

[Thad]

Wow, that didn't register with anyone?

The opposite: I've got a lot of thoughts about Corman and haven't had time to put them all together.

There have been a lot of people who have done the same kinds of things Corman did, but nobody did it as well as he did. He had an incredible eye for talent, and when the greats like Scorcese talk about him it's with respect and fondness. He knew his business better than anybody, and even his bad movies are still technically competent in a way that a lot of cheap schlock isn't.

Good, bad, or mediocre, a Roger Corman movie was usually three things: cheap, competent, and fun to watch.

There's never going to be anybody else quite like him, but we'll be seeing filmmakers try to do what he did for generations to come.