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thatcrazycajunThis year is getting steadily worse by the day for killing off creative types. Newsarama.com informs me that Steve Gerber, Howard the Duck's creator, is dead at 60 of complications from pulmonary fibrosis. The story is here.
Howard's book was like no other in comics that had yet appeared prior...and every other fourth-wall-breaking, culture-twitting, surrealistic satire in the four-color world since then owes a debt to it, and to Steve (yes, Keith "Ambush Bug" Giffen, I'm looking at you). Marvel Comics' editors had guts to publish it...and I had a ball reading it. The closest thing I've seen to its spirit today is the recent revival of She-Hulk (in which Howard's home planet of Duckworld even had a cameo last year). He wrote for both DC and Marvel, and dabbled in writing for both live-action and animated TV shows (he even co-wrote a 2nd-season episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation called "Contagion").
Dammit. We shall not see his like again, I think.
Howard's book was like no other in comics that had yet appeared prior...and every other fourth-wall-breaking, culture-twitting, surrealistic satire in the four-color world since then owes a debt to it, and to Steve (yes, Keith "Ambush Bug" Giffen, I'm looking at you). Marvel Comics' editors had guts to publish it...and I had a ball reading it. The closest thing I've seen to its spirit today is the recent revival of She-Hulk (in which Howard's home planet of Duckworld even had a cameo last year). He wrote for both DC and Marvel, and dabbled in writing for both live-action and animated TV shows (he even co-wrote a 2nd-season episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation called "Contagion").
Dammit. We shall not see his like again, I think.
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Date: 2008-02-13 12:57 pm (UTC)Still, he will be missed.