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John OConnor
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Posted: 21 January 2025 at 3:06pm | IP Logged | 1 post reply
If for no other reason than his book on golden age comics...but for so much more. 
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John Byrne

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Posted: 21 January 2025 at 3:30pm | IP Logged | 2 post reply
Embarrassed to admit I thought he was already gone!

A massive talent.

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Dave Kopperman
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Posted: 21 January 2025 at 3:56pm | IP Logged | 3 post reply
There was a recent profile in the Times about how he'd been reinvigorated by a move out of the city several years before.

It's hard to gauge how impactful his theory of comics has been on my own view of the medium, because it feels like he pretty much built it single-handedly. RIP.
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Doug Centers
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Posted: 21 January 2025 at 7:44pm | IP Logged | 4 post reply
Nice run.

Getting a "Golden Age" assessment from someone who read those comics as they came out, and for the designed age group, was invaluable.
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John Byrne

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Posted: 21 January 2025 at 7:53pm | IP Logged | 5 post reply
I was still on the fan side when I read his history. Wonderful stuff. Planted a lot of ideas in my soft little brain.
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Mark Haslett
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Posted: 21 January 2025 at 8:18pm | IP Logged | 6 post reply
He was so accomplished, he was writing for Eisner’s Spirit when he was a
kid— kind of the original fan-turned-pro.

He really did it all. I want to get to know his work better. Time has come.
RIP.
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John Byrne

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Posted: 21 January 2025 at 9:24pm | IP Logged | 7 post reply
Wally Wood did a two page spread for MAD of a syndicate Christmas party. Couple of dozen characters all precisely in the appropriate style. Off to one side was a little guy exactly as Feiffer might have drawn him, saying “I’m enjoying myself! I really am enjoying myself! If must be th confidence of talking inside a balloon!”
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Eric Smearman
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Posted: 21 January 2025 at 10:04pm | IP Logged | 8 post reply
Aw, man...Sad news.
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