Rolling Obituary Thread: 2020

Was just coming to see if Quino had been mentioned. Both my partner (who is Cuban Spanish) and my Spanish teacher are pretty sad about him dying - Mafalda was a big deal for them growing up as I understand it. I've tried to read it, but still struggle to really get the nuances.

Frank Windsor, 92, staple of British police dramas.

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2020/oct/02/frank-windsor-z-cars-softly-softly-dies

bit late to this but Quino and Mafalda were well loved in my household. We have a big doorstop book - Todo Mafalda - which has every strip. Definitely the only comic strip I've read in its entirety. definitely the pre-eminent and undisputed greatest Latin American comic strip and he stopped making it in 74 or something like that. RIP.

Mafalda was also a big deal in France (and Quebec, to some extent). Quino doesn't appear to have made much of a dent in English-speaking countries – a shame.

big in Italy also I seem to remember

Makes sense.

legendary Dubstep artist Cookie Monsta

RIP

Baseball Hall of Famer Bob Gibson

dag

Tony Baylis of The Wurzels

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/tributes-paid-chart-topping-member-4571333.amp

Rip big man, was listening to some wurzels just this past week ('drink up thy zider' got played on nts, adge and the lads are hipster music now)

My wife loves Mafalda; might need to look for that book. Thanks for the tip!

Claude Vigée, French poet, 99. RIP.

We have a pdf of (I think) Toda Mafalda, but the picture quality is pretty terrible and lots of the strips are cut off, so I'm on the lookout for the actual book for my partner too.

Baseball player Charlie Haeger Found Dead After Being Wanted On Suspicion Of Murder Charge In Ex-Girlfriend’s Death

https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2020/10/03/charlie-haeger-dead-report/

playwright and screenwriter Murray Schisgal (Luv, Tootsie

https://forward.com/culture/455757/remembering-murray-schisgal-the-consummate-jewish-playwright-with-the-eyes/

Thomas Jefferson Byrd

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/spike-lee-pays-tribute-to-clockers-star-thomas-jefferson-byrd-says-actor-was-murdered

His line about keeping his teeth white in Bamboozled is SO fucking funny

nah that was Paul Mooney

peregrine worsthorne

Thought he'd died in about 1971

you would sting me with a wasp?

Was you ever stung by a dead bee?

that was possibly one of the most underrated moments of brasseye

"Kem to meh gehrden in sythe bex"

From the first pages when Worsthorne describes resisting being given an enema by his mother to the later accounts of interviewing American presidents and other VIPs, the memoir is frank. The author casts an ironical eye on his own private life and on the lives and characters of friends and enemies.

"you'd sting me with an enema?!!"

Was you ever stungbit by a dead bee?

there are some nice classic old-tory details on his wiki. like how his parents divorced and his mother married the governor of the bank of England and he was brought up by his butler! And he claims he was seduced by George Melly who apparently always denied this tryst.

https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/clark-middleton-dead-the-blacklist-twin-peaks-kill-bill-2-1234793399/

He was one of the more perplexing parts of the 3rd season of Twin Peaks.

Not being a Twin Peaks person, I knew him from the show The Path on Hulu, about life in a weirdo cult. He was really good in that, as the guy who takes you into a room and interrogates you if it seems like you might be having second thoughts about cult livin'.

Eddie Van Halen.

pic.twitter.com/kQqDV7pulR

— Wolf Van Halen (@WolfVanHalen) October 6, 2020

Holy shit.

!!!!!

Oh no! RIP

:(

Damn. RIP.

Woah

Too young

Fuuuuck

shit

'70s Pop-Reggae Man Johnny Nash

He covered The Wailers' "Stir It Up" so well that Bob & The Wailers re-covered it back in Nash's style which then made Bob Marley an international star and is the version we all know. RIP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3akafGyYMQ

I had missed the post above this and was all "Van Halen did THAT?"

You need to lay off the Cabo Wabo, Raggett.

Time to break out the LOL RIP/RIP LOL

In addition to “Stir It Up,” don’t sleep on “Guava Jelly.”

Nash signed Marley to his first record and publishing deal in the late '60s. Also: Nash's '68 single "Hold Me Tight" was one of the first--if not the first--Jamaican hits in the US (a year before "Israelites", and two before "Double Barrel").

Vaguely remembered the story about Joe Bob Marley and Johnny Nash got connected but had to look it up again. This guy was a big part of that story: https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/31/arts/music/danny-sims-producer-of-bob-marley-dies-at-75.html