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For me, Herb will forever be associated with the creation of this gentleman:
I liked his clean simple lines and as he progressed on the title he became more assured in his penmanship - giving a doubting aspiring artist hope that I could do it too!
Rest well Herb and sympathies to his family and friends.
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Apr 24, 2015 - 12:24 PM
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LeHah
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Yeah - kind of a tough read, seeing how even a major talent like Trimpe can have to struggle. But then the whole comics industry did crash pretty hard in the '90s (and not without cause, of course...).
One of the things I was blissfully (and sadly) unaware of as a comics-reading kid--I didn't read comic news journals or whatever then--was the fact that so many of those guys weren't exactly well off or happy in their personal lives.
I'm part of a separate videogame fandom that, while it had its core group, had its splinter factions as well. The best known one was run by a guy with the moniker Eagle-One. I never ran into him myself, but people told me to turn the other way if he showed up. He passed on several years ago (2008?) and thats when I found out he was actually comic book artist Wayne Howard, who ended up living / dying not too far from where I grew up. He was a strange dude, from what I've been told, if politely meek.
In a strange twist, one of my very favorite artists of all time - Wally Wood - lived in that same area when I was born in the very early 80s... and a few months later, he moved to California and ate a bullet. Something about Connecticut, man - it attracts lonely, impoverished arists.
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Apr 24, 2015 - 1:03 PM
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Jim Phelps
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In a strange twist, one of my very favorite artists of all time - Wally Wood - lived in that same area when I was born in the very early 80s... and a few months later, he moved to California and ate a bullet. Something about Connecticut, man - it attracts lonely, impoverished arists.
On that same morbid note, I read somewhere that Marvel artist Gil Kane is planted in a city neighboring mine here in South Florida or he died here, I forget which. I'm sure there are others, as well. Kane also lived for a time in Wilton Connecticut, so yes, that connection yet again (my mother hailed from Connecticut as well).
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