RIPs

[Dandontdare]

The cartoonist and wit, Bill Tidy, will pen no more.
https://downthetubes.net/in-memoriam-the-worlds-greatest-cartoonist-bill-tidy-mbe/

Very sad. I still have a yellowing clipping somewhere from a free North-West arts newspaper from 1985 of a Bill Tidy two-panel cartoon that still makes me chuckle just thinking about it:
p.1: stage door - young man and older couple. "Thanks for coming to my opening night, Mum & Dad, I'll try to give you a wave"
p.2: on stage - a pantomime horse with a hand sticking out the arse.


Went to a party at Chorlton Irish Club a few years ago and they had a 'cartoon confession' booth - you confessed some misdeed to a cartoonist who drew it. My friend came back with one and I was scornful - it was such an obvious rip-off of Bill Tidy's style. "Oh yeah, that was his name" said my friend - sadly, by this time he'd packed up and gone, so I missed meeting one of my all time favourite cartoonists (a position currently held by Bill Squires, FYI)

[Dandontdare]

ffs, DAVID Squires (not dead, btw, just typed name wrong above)

[Tjm86]

Lance Reddick of the Wire, John Wick, Fringe ...

 

[Batman's Superior Cousin]

Crossposting my response from another forum.

This news has me feeling absolutely socked and heartbroken. He was quite a talented actor who in the past few years was starting to get more recognition on both TV and the Silver Screen, due in no small part, to his natural charisma and acting abilities.

My condolences to his family, friends and colleagues!!

[rogue69]

Hawkwind guitarist and founder Mick Slattery aged 77

[Link Prime]

Lance Reddick died there at the weekend - damn fine actor.

Too young at 60 years of age - aside from the fact he looked about 50 and was apparently fit as a fiddle.

Ask not for whom the bell tolls.

[Batman's Superior Cousin]

Paul O'Grady: TV presenter and comedian dies aged 67 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-65108130

[nxylas]

Paul O'Grady: TV presenter and comedian dies aged 67 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-65108130

I read a rather wonderful story on Twitter. Back in his Lily Savage days, at the height of the AIDS panic, he was playing a gay club which was raided by the Met. The officers were all wearing rubber gloves, to protect themselves from the "gay plague". Quick as a flash, Savage ad-libbed from the stage "Hello, looks like we've got some help with the washing-up."

[The Legendary Shark]

I think I may have seen him once, long ago, in the final decades of the last century, at Henry Africa's in Parbold.

[Batman's Superior Cousin]

Paul O'Grady: TV presenter and comedian dies aged 67 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-65108130

I read a rather wonderful story on Twitter. Back in his Lily Savage days, at the height of the AIDS panic, he was playing a gay club which was raided by the Met. The officers were all wearing rubber gloves, to protect themselves from the "gay plague". Quick as a flash, Savage ad-libbed from the stage "Hello, looks like we've got some help with the washing-up."

Paul O'Grady: How Lily Savage defied police who raided a pub with rubber gloves https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-65115059

[rogue69]

Keith Reid lyricist for Procol Harum aged 76
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/mar/30/keith-reid-lyricist-for-procol-harum-dies-aged-76

[nxylas]

Falcon off of Gladiators:
https://www.basingstokegazette.co.uk/news/23425943.basingstokes-gladiator-bernadette-hunt-aka-falcon-dies-aged-59/?ref=rss

[Barrington Boots]

This whole thread is usually depressing reading, but that feels especially bitter to read.

[sheridan]

Klaus Teuber, 70, game designer.  Specifically designer of Settlers of Catan, probably the most influential single game to be released in recorded memory (practically gave birth to the genre of German* Board** Games).

* the genre isn't limited to German games
** the genre isn't limited to board games

[IAMTHESYSTEM]

Norman Reynolds an unfamiliar name but the Production Designer responsible for bringing Star Wars and others to life.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-65200513