A controversial and polarising figure, Keith Giffen was instrumental in steering moribund franchises such as the Legion of Super-Heroes and the Justice League back to best-seller status, and is remembered for co-creating Lobo, Ambush Bug, and Rocket Raccoon.
John Romita, Sr., was one of the last survivors of those who, with Stan Lee, shaped Marvel in the early and mid-1960s.
Lee Moder, comics illustrator and co-creator of DC’s Stargirl, has died at the age of 53.
The longest-serving illustrator of The Beano‘s Bash Street Kids has died at the age of 89.
Another comics great has left us. Tony Keen writes an appreciation of an artist whose work he has admired and loved for forty years.
Golden Age artist Lily Renée has died.
One of the last survivors of the classic ‘Marvel Bullpen’ of the 1960s, inker Tom Palmer, died on 18 August at the age of 81.
Raymond Briggs, author and illustrator of the hugely popular graphic novels The Snowman, When the Wind Blows, Father Christmas and Fungus the Bogeyman, among many others, died on 9 August at the age of 88.
Surprisingly, WB have cancelled the nearly-finished Batgirl movie.
We look back over the career of the late Alan Grant.
