RIPs

[karlos]

Right on, chaps.

Let's all be nice to each other.

(Not that people on here aren't, already)

[Funt Solo]

I'm with Tjm86 Block.

[rogue69]

Samantha Davis actress and campaigner aged 53

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/apr/18/samantha-davis-campaigner-wife-warwick-davis-dies-aged-53

[rogue69]

Mike Pinder Moody Blues founding member & keyboardist aged 82

https://metro.co.uk/2024/04/26/mike-pinder-moody-blues-founding-band-member-dead-82-20722424/

[Colin YNWA]

Oh no Paul Auster has passed. Such a brilliant author whose life had been tough over the last few years. He leaves behind a quite brilliant literary legacy.

[JayzusB.Christ]

Sorry to hear that. New York Trilogy is one of those books that left me a bit puzzled but under no doubt that I'd just read a masterpiece.

Another is an autobiographical work that will stay lodged in my brain forever - the only thing I forget is the name but I think it was Hand to Mouth.

Zenith owes Paul Auater a debt, and so, now I think about it, does Grant's Animal Man.

[Colin YNWA]

Zenith owes Paul Auater a debt, and so, now I think about it, does Grant's Animal Man.

Yeah I can see that. The 2000ad writer I most associate his work with is Pete Milligan both having such a direct focus on identity.

I adored his novels. Timbuktu, Mr Vertigo and Music of Chance being particular favourites.

[nxylas]

Artist Jon Haward, who drew some Judge Dredds and Tales of Telguuth back in the '90s and '00s (news comes via Sue Grant's Facebook page).