RIPs

[rogue69]

Darius Campbell Danesh: Pop Idol and West End star dies aged 41
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-62564721?fbclid=IwAR0i0lJQs7qD3upJUOssJA5BeP-ppUpR3hjxokdJrqoK2O1lyx9it6N4FDA

[IAMTHESYSTEM]

Filmmaker Wolfgang Petersen, who made Das Boot and In The Line Of Fire, plus many other films, has passed on.

https://deadline.com/2022/08/wolfgang-petersen-dead-director-perfect-storm-das-boot-air-force-one-1235093543/

[Colin YNWA]

Das Boot, particularly the extended TV version was simply epic, glorious tension. And that ending was brutal. Such an amazing piece of work.

[The Mind of Wolfie Smith]

wonderful film. talk about immersive.

[wedgeski]

Das Boot, particularly the extended TV version was simply epic, glorious tension. And that ending was brutal. Such an amazing piece of work.

Amazing. Quite the formative experience when I saw it as a young'un.

[Colin YNWA]

Sad to hear of the passing of artistic genius Tom Palmer. Possibly the biggest complement I can pay him us I rank him alongside Klaus Janson as an inker who has positive impact on the work of anyone he inked. He makes absolutely apparent that inking is so much more than just 'tracing'.

One if the true greats has gone, but has of legacy matched by few others.

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/tom-palmer-sr-inker-extraordinaire-dies-at-the-age-of-81/

[IAMTHESYSTEM]

More sad news from the Comic Book Industry as Tom Palmer was an outstanding inker of pencils. Very unfortunate to hear of his passing.

[Goosegash]

Oliver "Oli" Frey, best known as the cover artist for Crash & Zzap 64 magazine, has died aged 74. One of those artists you'd swear must've been a regular in 2000AD at some point, but his only contribution was a single Rogue Trooper splash page (or Rogue Tropper as this website has it). He did do a couple of episodes of Dan Dare for the eighties Eagle, however.

https://www.timeextension.com/news/2022/08/zzap64-and-crash-illustrator-oliver-frey-has-passed-away

Never knew about his side career in erotic gay art, or the fact he worked on the 1978 Superman film!

[M.I.K.]

Oliver "Oli" Frey, best known as the cover artist for Crash & Zzap 64 magazine, has died aged 74. One of those artists you'd swear must've been a regular in 2000AD at some point, but his only contribution was a single Rogue Trooper splash page (or Rogue Tropper as this website has it). He did do a couple of episodes of Dan Dare for the eighties Eagle, however.

He also did those back covers of Scream! that connected up into posters.

[IAMTHESYSTEM]

Oliver Frey's distinctive style graced many Magazine covers. I used to buy the old Crash: ZX Spectrum, and I think Oliver produced comic book interiors for that publication. More terrible news then, and this year is proving a nemesis for many of my favourite artists and creators. None of us is getting any younger, of course.

[The Legendary Shark]

Nichelle Nichols finds a final resting place among the stars...

[IAMTHESYSTEM]

Gerald Potterton, an animater responsible for Heavy Metal and the Beatle Yellow Submarine, has died.
https://www.nme.com/news/music/yellow-submarine-animator-and-heavy-metal-director-gerald-potterton-has-died-3298716

[Batman's Superior Cousin]

The so-called "Man of the Hole" and the last member of a tribe indigenous to Brazil, was found dead on the 23rd August in a hammock outside his straw hut

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-62712318

[Richard]

Gorbachev.

[Batman's Superior Cousin]

Charlbi Dean, aka Syonide in Black Lightning, has sadly died suddenly and tragically of a 'sudden illness'.

https://variety.com/2022/film/news/charlbi-dean-dead-triangle-of-sadness-black-lightning-1235354577/