Dan Adkins passed away a little more than two weeks ago. Dan was a top-notch inker and a talented penciler. He worked for Marvel, DC, and many other comic book publishers over the course of his career. Dan collaborated with Wally Wood and also produced illustrations for pulp magazines. A short obituary can be found here:
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/readingeagle/obituary.aspx?n=danny-adkins&pid=164699512
We lost another Golden Age artist. Christine Elizabeth Lyttle passed away on March 27, 2013.
Christine Lyttle, using her married name Christine Smith, first worked for Western Printing and Lithography, the company that produced comics for both Dell and Whitman publishing companies. At Western, Lyttle wrote and drew for titles such as Little Lulu, Roy Rogers, Tarzan, and Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse Almanac, Silly Symphonies and Sleeping Beauty.
An obituary can be found here:
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/timesunion/obituary.aspx?n=CHRISTINE-LYTTLE&pid=164239247
Some website called Doo Web Rank that ranks web site traffic says my samuelsdesign.com domain name is worth $97,076.
http://doowebrank.com/www/samuelsdesign.com
Wow, that’s a lot more than I would have guessed.
I’m not sure how accurate this estimate is but If anyone wants to buy my domain and web site for that kind of money please let me know!
Disclaimer: This is not related to Golden Age comics.
Full disclosure: I had never contributed to a Kickstarter campaign before, but I contributed to this one.
Ok… Acclaimed comic artist Mike Kaluta and writer Elaine Lee are raising money to produce a new book of their creator-owned series “Starstruck”. I think it is a worthy project and time is running short. They have already raised a lot of money but could still use more. Contributors can receive some really cool swag, the more you donate, the more you get. The whole thing ends soon, so act now!
Click here for details and information:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/elainelee/harry-palmer-starstruck-or-old-proldiers-never-die
(Update: The campaign has ended.)
Tuesday, March 19th, 2013
Sad news. We have lost another Golden Age comic book artist. Dorothy Hunter was a member of Bob Woggon’s studio, working on Katy Keene and other “Archie”-related material. Records indicate that she was born in 1916, and passed away at the age of 96 on March 7th, 2013.
A heart-warming obituary can be found here.
