RIP :(
― Theory of Every Zing (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 14 April 2019 19:26 (five years ago) link
Scottish newspaper cartoonist Malky McCormick, best known for his Billy Connolly Big Yin strip in the Sunday Mail (which also featured him as Wee Man) and then the following lightly satirical stuff (when Billy had fallen out with the Record about something and refused his likeness).
― Elitist cheese photos (aldo), Monday, 15 April 2019 13:19 (five years ago) link
Paul Raymond from UFO
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 15 April 2019 15:27 (five years ago) link
SF/fantasy writer Gene Wolfe
― The Carjackers Quickly Dumped ILX Once They Saw What Was Inside (WmC), Monday, 15 April 2019 16:13 (five years ago) link
People you thought were dead. RIP Malky.
https://i2-prod.dailyrecord.co.uk/incoming/article14330233.ece/ALTERNATES/s615b/0_THE-BIG-YIN-CARTOON.jpg
― Do you like 70s hard rock with a guitar hero? (Tom D.), Monday, 15 April 2019 17:57 (five years ago) link
I thought you'd be the one guy who definitely knew who he was.
You might even say I was Lucan out for you. *
*niche joke
― Elitist cheese photos (aldo), Monday, 15 April 2019 18:31 (five years ago) link
i remember his drawings from the record, though the specific big yin strip must be from before my time
― findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Monday, 15 April 2019 18:49 (five years ago) link
I almost did.
― Do you like 70s hard rock with a guitar hero? (Tom D.), Monday, 15 April 2019 19:02 (five years ago) link
david brion davis, historian of slavery
― mookieproof, Monday, 15 April 2019 19:53 (five years ago) link
No! Fuck, this one hurts. RIP.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 16 April 2019 07:10 (five years ago) link
Les Reed, songwriter, composer of "Delilah", "It's Not Unusual", "There's a Kind of Hush" et al.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-47948530
― Do you like 70s hard rock with a guitar hero? (Tom D.), Tuesday, 16 April 2019 11:34 (five years ago) link
Kazuhiko Katou aka Monkey Punch, most famous for writing and drawing the Lupin III manga
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Tuesday, 16 April 2019 17:54 (five years ago) link
Georgia Engel, most know for playing Georgette on the Mary Tyler Moore show.
https://www.npr.org/2019/04/16/713892952/georgia-engel-sweet-voiced-star-of-mary-tyler-moore-show-dies-at-70
― nickn, Tuesday, 16 April 2019 19:01 (five years ago) link
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Tuesday, April 16, 2019 10:54 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark
oh man rip
― findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 16 April 2019 19:03 (five years ago) link
it'd hard to play a wide-eyed innocent for laughs and not be boring; she was masterful
xp
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 16 April 2019 19:03 (five years ago) link
https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/sl3-117-2109_large.jpg
Skylab/Space Shuttle scientist-astronaut Owen Garriotthttps://www.nasa.gov/feature/skylab-and-space-shuttle-astronaut-owen-garriott-dies-at-88/
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 16 April 2019 21:13 (five years ago) link
I’ve got a tattoo of Skylab with an astronaut on a space walk so apparently I have a 1/7 chance that I have a tattoo of that guy
― joygoat, Tuesday, 16 April 2019 23:18 (five years ago) link
J. Geils
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/guitarist-j-geils-dead-at-71-108373
― Plinka Trinka Banga Tink (Eliza D.), Wednesday, 17 April 2019 15:06 (five years ago) link
^^Two Years Ago. It's been going around again.
― a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 17 April 2019 15:09 (five years ago) link
jesus my blood ran cold there for a second
― fremme nette his simplicitte (darraghmac), Wednesday, 17 April 2019 15:12 (five years ago) link
Being Dead Stinks
― a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 17 April 2019 15:15 (five years ago) link
j. geils: dead and loving it
― Boris Bronfentrinker of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 17 April 2019 15:18 (five years ago) link
damn it
― Plinka Trinka Banga Tink (Eliza D.), Wednesday, 17 April 2019 15:18 (five years ago) link
FWIW, I've probably seen that link shared more over the past few days than I did when it actually happened.
― a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 17 April 2019 15:24 (five years ago) link
my dad got tricked by the J Geils thing the other day.... and these obituaries, we keep tabs on them. we play games. and I think about this
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 17 April 2019 16:02 (five years ago) link
Alan Garcia, who was President of Peru for ten years (iirc) has shot himself rather than getting arrested in a corruption probe.
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/world-latin-america-47965867
― ShariVari, Wednesday, 17 April 2019 16:34 (five years ago) link
Watergate burglar Janes McCord (in 2017 but just reported now)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/james-mccord-jr-watergate-conspirator-who-linked-break-in-to-the-white-house-dies-at-93/2019/04/18/11c2082e-6195-11e9-9ff2-abc984dc9eec_story.html?utm_term=.ab19488ddd41
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 19 April 2019 10:51 (five years ago) link
Manga writer Kazuo Koike (Lone Wolf & Cub, Hanzo the Razor, Lady Snowblood, Crying Freeman), 82 (pneumonia).
― The Mod Who Banned Liberty Valance (WmC), Friday, 19 April 2019 12:09 (five years ago) link
I don’t read comics so had no idea those were all written by the same person!
― mumsnet blvd (wins), Friday, 19 April 2019 12:12 (five years ago) link
8( i have a 3ft pile of his manga.
(LW&C books are currently £2 each on comixology btw. there are 28 of them, over 8000pp total)
― koogs, Friday, 19 April 2019 12:13 (five years ago) link
I had no idea he was still alive! And now I miss Martin Skidmore.
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 19 April 2019 12:13 (five years ago) link
wrote lots of golf manga as well. but i don't think this ever reached a western audience.
― koogs, Friday, 19 April 2019 12:18 (five years ago) link
Just saw this. I do read comics but basically zero manga. Koike's work, though, is an exception because it's exceptionally good.
― Joan Lunden just stole your laptop and I didn't even try to stop her (Old Lunch), Friday, 19 April 2019 18:41 (five years ago) link
Just saw that disco producer Don Ray died last month.
― visiting, Friday, 19 April 2019 18:56 (five years ago) link
truly surreal that it took two years (!!) for anyone to get around to noticing that a major figure in the watergate scandal had died.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 19 April 2019 19:03 (five years ago) link
lyra mckee, journalist, 29 years old
― Mr. Snrub, Saturday, 20 April 2019 21:46 (five years ago) link
RIP, responsible for some great tunes.
― Do you like 70s hard rock with a guitar hero? (Tom D.), Saturday, 20 April 2019 22:21 (five years ago) link
Billy McNeill
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/41685748
― Freddie Starr (Hitler in shorts) (Tom D.), Tuesday, 23 April 2019 08:16 (five years ago) link
German actor Hannelore Elsner has died at the age of 76. Best known for her performance in the 2000 film 'Die Unberührbare (No Place to Go)', and deserved better roles than she usually got on German TV.
https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/nachruf-auf-hannelore-elsner-16153863.html
― Portsmouth Bubblejet, Tuesday, 23 April 2019 18:20 (five years ago) link
just found out last week that Tom Goodkind (of the NYC bands US Ape and the Washington Squares) died a couple months back
http://www.tribecatrib.com/content/tom-goodkind-activist-and-band-leader-was-local-renaissance-man
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 23 April 2019 19:14 (five years ago) link
Ken Kercheval
https://www.thewrap.com/ken-kercheval-dies-dallas-actor-cliff-barnes/
― a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 24 April 2019 19:56 (five years ago) link
Ted Kelsey, one of the great unintelligible radio actors and also Baron Greenback in Dangermouse.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-48036700
― Elitist cheese photos (aldo), Wednesday, 24 April 2019 21:00 (five years ago) link
Jean-Pierre Marielle, French actor, 87. RIP.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 24 April 2019 21:02 (five years ago) link
He was a fine Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe in Tous les matins du monde. Such a wonderful film (and novel).
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 24 April 2019 21:03 (five years ago) link
Mark Medoff, playwright of Children of a Lesser God
David Picker, United Artists exec who helped get the film careers of the Beatles and James Bond rolling
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 24 April 2019 21:14 (five years ago) link
man someone sure is busy today
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 24 April 2019 22:16 (five years ago) link
Dick Rivers, French rocker.
― glumdalclitch, Wednesday, 24 April 2019 23:32 (five years ago) link
Fred Foss, DC jazz sax player and flutist who started in NY and played with Lionel Hampton, Tito Puente, Hugh Masekela and more has died (per Facebook and twitter)
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 25 April 2019 04:25 (five years ago) link
This was mentioned on I Love Basketball, but it should be here too:
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/sports/john-havlicek-celtics-legend-who-stole-ball-dies-79-n998771
His career box shows amazing consistency in virtually every category, especially games played: from 71 to 82 every season for 16 years, no partial seasons. Looks like he never had an injury.
― clemenza, Friday, 26 April 2019 05:10 (five years ago) link
Michael Wolf - only 64, one of my favourite photobooks is his (now rather expensive unfortunately) one on HK.
Michael Wolf: The man who found beauty in megacities
https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/12978/production/_106625167_dd7351c9-41e2-4539-9ff9-9c2666fd4d98.jpg
― Ned Trifle X, Sunday, 28 April 2019 17:05 (five years ago) link