a memorial page for martin skidmore

We're planning a memorial page to Martin (probably using Freaky Trigger's server space, though not FT-branded): this would include pictures of him, a short account of his achievements, a full set of links to the many very moving obits that have now gone up and to some of his best-loved pieces -- and also some kind of section encouraging people to swap stories about him, fond, funny, fascinating, gathered from comments threads, message boards, and elsewhere.

I'm sure many ilxors have such stories: so I'm putting out a call for you to email them to me -- post them here also if you like, but if there are any you'd like to tell without necessarily making your name or cognomen public, just email them direct to me, and I'll anonymise them before we out them up.

I imagine it'll take a week or two before we get it designed and gathered and sorted and edited.

(bumping this for the morning trade)

Don't have anything to contribute, but that's a lovely idea and I wish you all the best with it.

I am not a great writer by any means so I'm not the ideal contributor, but I am glad this is being put together.

Just to remind anyone that didn't see it -- email me stories if you don't want to put them up here or on the RIP page

It took a bit longer than planned, what with one thing and another, but here is the Freaky Trigger memorial page for Martin.

*sigh*

it's here: http://freakytrigger.co.uk/martin/

You've all done very well!

Nice work! I didn't really ever interact with Martin, but I've always enjoyed his writing, very cool to see this. I like the use of the Wu-Tang logo.

This is so nice, I think he would have loved this.

once again, the freaky trigger ppl have done martin proud.

The logo's a brilliant touch. Honored to be one of the linked pieces.

That is wonderful, you guys.

Very well done, indeed

aw

it tells me that I am looking for something that isn't there.

you need to click the second link that mark posted, not the first

I see that now.

Wonderful work.

happy birthday martin!

i will always be honored that martin appeared on me and mark s's podcast once. we didn't have a studio so martin came to my apartment. i spread a blanket on the kitchen table to try and muffle the reverb. i think martin was our first guest to say straight out he didn't think much of the story, but he used it as a launching point for one of the best discussions i think we ever had on the show.

http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/04/a-bite-of-stars-a-slug-of-time-and-thou-episode-4/

his knowledge and curiosity and humility were all legendary. i wish i could have shared all the incredible bandes dessinées i've discovered in france. he was always envious of french comics culture.

yes, happy birthday martin! it always amused him there was one day a year he and i were exactly the same age

six years gone just like that :(

Beautifully put, Tracer Hand.

Just the other day I was sorting out some books and wondering why I had two identical paperback copies of Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said by Philip K Dick. I opened one of them and found that it had a bookplate pasted on the first page - it was the book that Martin had chosen for a school prize. I inherited a number of Martin's PKD holdings, never noticed the plate before, and was of course deeply moved.

Hardly a day goes by when I don't think, 'Would love to talk to Skidmore about...'

He was top notch, then and now.

Happy birthday, Martin!

Another link to the FT memorial page: http://freakytrigger.co.uk/martin/

Thanks for sharing this, Tracer.

I have a big pile of Samuel R Delany books in my bedroom and whenever I see them I think about Martin, and also about H@zel's very touching speech at Martin's memorial service, when she talked about him reading a worn down-copy of Dhalgren for the very final time. Books live on after us - but we live on through them too.

Hadn't seen those photos before - so nice.

This page appears to be gone :/ Anybody know how we can get it back?

His birthday today and I'm thinking of him.

https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2011/07/martin-skidmore

Is this the one, Tracer?

Bless Martin.

I found it on the Wayback Machine:

https://web.archive.org/web/20210624003437/http://freakytrigger.co.uk/martin/

In particular I was remembering these tremendous photos of him:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/worldofagwu/sets/72157627168828539

And amid all this remembering I have just noticed: A new post on the site Martin started in 2010!

https://comiczine-fa.com

Feel like if anyone was the über-ILX0r it was he.