Rolling Obituary Thread: 2018

oh Carlos. i remember his appearance on The Big Breakfast when the Stallone film was released, much to everyone's bemusement.

Apparently Norm Breyfogle, probably most famous for his Batman art of the early 90s. He had a stroke a couple of years ago, I know.

― Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo)

ah, shit, breyfogle's batman was my batman. i met him at a con once. he was cool.

by which i mean he was polite to me while i bitched at him about how i don't fuck with DC any more because of rape culture. can't ask for any more than that.

actually, it was worse than that - i don't always enunciate terribly well and he said "i'm sorry, what culture?", so I wound up screaming "RAPE!" into his face. it was a little awkward, but i guess when you work cons you have to deal with some awkward shit.

fuck, i missed that norm breyfogle news the first time around - his batman was my batman too :(

2000ad the only comic I still read. RIP

Stelvio Cipriani

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G86A7FhaO0w

An enormous influence on my childhood.

Same here. Loved everything he drew. RIP Carlos.

https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/latin/8477603/jerry-gonzalez-dies-trumpeter-dead

Latin jazz trumpeter Jerry González has reportedly died at age 69, according to The Spanish Society of Authors and Publishers (SGAE) and local reports.

González reportedly died after a fire blazed through his first-floor home in Madrid around midnight on Monday (Oct. 1...González, who was of Puerto Rican parentage, was born in East Harlem and grew up in The Bronx. He was a member of Eddie Palmieri’s band early in his career, then joined Manny Oquendo’s Conjunto Libre with his brother, bassist Andy González. Andy was also by his side in The Fort Apache Band, which he formed in 1979.

After appearing in Spanish director Fernando Trueba’s 2000 Latin jazz documentary Calle 54, Jerry González moved to Madrid. There, he formed a quartet, El Comando de la Clave, and recorded and performed with both jazz and flamenco musicians

RIP:(

well today is certainly a busy one

Not much up in the way of clips, but one of my favourite portrayals of melancholy ever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pJoOvhitCU

:( What a day. Posting this to cheer myself up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJsaujSs7Fw

Geoff Emerick

https://variety.com/2018/music/news/geoff-emerick-beatles-engineer-dead-1202966681/

Damn! RIP

Seeing on FB that Joop Roelofs guitarist of Q65 has passed away.

About a month ago: actor Peter Benson, whom I first noticed as an astonishingly meek Henry VI in the BBC Shakespeare DVD set.

https://i2.wp.com/www.loways.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/heartbeat-and-blackadder-actor-peter-benson-dies.jpg

And of course he was Henry VII in Blackadder in between those and reprising the role in Richard III.

I'll remember him as Bor, the most confused of the Vanir in the Doctor Who serial Terminus.

Juan Romero, the young man who was working as a busboy at the Ambassador Hotel when RFK was shot and held him after he fell (as seen in the photo in the story.)

https://www.npr.org/2018/10/04/654282422/juan-romero-busboy-who-cradled-dying-rfk-dies-at-68

Baritone saxophonist and founding member of the World Saxophone Quartet (along with Julius Hemphill, David Murray, and Oliver Lake) Hamiet Bluiett.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3T-MdIoo8Y

Animator Will Vinton (California Raisins, The PJs), 70

Bluiett :( when I think of Bari sax I think of him.

My girlfriend’s a big fan, we played some cuts of WSQ in his honor before we headed out tonight.

https://stljazznotes.blogspot.com/2018/10/hamiet-bluiett-1940-2018.html

rip Hamiet.

Steptoe and Son creator Ray Galton, 88:
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2018/oct/06/ray-galton-co-creator-of-steptoe-and-son-dies-aged-88

The great Montserrat Caballé, who for some reason I thought had died a few years ago.

I always remember her from the Freddie Mercury hit, what a voice!

RIP Ray (xxp)

awww, man, hamiet did some fantastic duo gigs with don pullen back in the day

The great Montserrat Caballé, who for some reason I thought had died a few years ago.

You may have been thinking of Montserrat Figueras, another Spanish classical singer, who died in 2011.

Scott Wilson

https://comicbook.com/thewalkingdead/2018/10/07/the-walking-dead-scott-wilson-dead-age-hershel/

I'm seeing John Wicks of The Records, but no link.

http://www.slicingupeyeballs.com/2018/10/07/john-wicks-the-records-dead/

RIP Scott. Magnificent in The Ninth Configuration which will be getting a rewatch tonight.

Pascale Casanova, French literary critic, author of The World Republic of Letters. RIP.

I always got Scott Wilson confused with Clu Gulager.

Actress Celeste Yarnall.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/celeste-yarnall-dead-star-trek-885728

Japanese composer Takehisa Kosugi (of Taj Mahal Travellers and the solo album Catch-Wave, a minimalist drone classic)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Stafford

Greg Stafford, creator of the fantasy world Golorantha and the setting for seminal RPG Runequest.

Betty Grissom, widow of astronaut Gus Grissom, who sued North American Rockwell over the Apollo 1 fire in which he died

https://apnews.com/d90d71139414422e94774fb83ec167ec

aw Betty <3

talk about a flamekeeper.

i agree but uh that might not have been the first word i would have chosen :/

ugh fuck yr right

let’s just say the definition of steadfast

done

Paul Spudis, regarded as one of the most important lunar scientists ever.
https://spacenews.com/lunar-scientist-and-exploration-advocate-paul-spudis-passes-away/

Peter Brackley, the voice of 90s Italian football.

William Coors, right-wing beer mogul, at 102

Coors brewery workers struck in 1977 over many issues, including the use of lie-detector tests to ferret out employees who were gay or whose politics were considered radical.

lovely guy, hope he took some time to drink some of that fine stuff!

Paul Allen

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/technology/wp/2018/10/15/paul-allen-microsoft-co-founder-and-billionaire-investor-dies-at-65-2/