In Remembrance:2007

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R&B singer/songwriter Luther Ingram, best known for the song "If Loving You Is Wrong, I Don't Want to Be Right", has died. He was 69.

Ingram also co-wrote "Respect Yourself", which was a hit for the Staple Singers and Bruce Willis.

 

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Larry Bud Melman dies

Calvert DeForrest, who played Larry Bud Melman on Late Night with David Letterman (and continued to appear, using his real name, on Dave's CBS show), has died. He was 85.

 

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From Newsarama: DREW HAYES DIES :

Received from Sirius Entertainment, Inc

Sirius Entertainment is saddened to report that Drew Hayes, the maverick creator of POISON ELVES, has died in his hometown of Bellingham, Washington. Drew had a heart attack while suffering from pneumonia. He is survived by his daughter, Mary and his mother, Sharon.

Drew had been hospitalized more than once over the last several years, but his return to good health had been anticipated, so the suddenness of his passing was an unexpected shock to those that knew him. Drew was 37 years old.

Drew Hayes entered the comic book field in 1991 by self-publishing his cult-hit series, I, LUSIPHUR. Over the next four years, he published twenty issues (collected in POISON ELVES: THE MULEHIDE YEARS trade paperback), changed the series title to POISON ELVES, and became known as one of the most singular and respected voices in the self-publishing world. In a bold transition, Hayes brought POISON ELVES under the Sirius Entertainment banner, where his creative freedom remained wholly intact. The last completed issue of the on-going series was issue #79, published by Sirius in September of 2004. Hayes’ total output has surpassed 100 issues, many of which are collected in the ten POISON ELVES trade paperbacks.

 

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Robert Clark, best known for directing A Christmas Story, and his son were killed in a car accident. The driver of the other car was drunk and driving without a license.

Clark was 67.

 

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Eddie Robinson, football coach for Grambling State University for almost 60 years, died yesterday. He was 88.

Robinson was responsible for sending over 200 players to the NFL, including Doug Williams, Willie Davis, James Harris, and many others.

 

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Robert Clark, best known for directing A Christmas Story, and his son were killed in a car accident. The driver of the other car was drunk and driving without a license.

Clark was 67.

Robert Clark

 

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Johnny Hart, the award-winning cartoonist who created "B.C." and "The Wizard of Id", died of a stroke yesterday. He was 76.

I wonder what's going to happen to his strips.

 

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I think his kids took over a long time ago. But that doesn't mean they will continue.

Edit- wrong comic. I was thinking of Hagar.

 

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Johnny Hart, the award-winning cartoonist who created "B.C." and "The Wizard of Id", died of a stroke yesterday. He was 76.

I wonder what's going to happen to his strips.

That's very sad news. He was from the Binghamton area, where I spent a good deal of my life as a kid and went to high school up there.

I remember there was a bar in Johnson City (near Binghamton) called The Duke's Place, and Mr. Hart had graciously designed their sign based on the Duke from The Wizard of Id.

 

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Calvert DeForrest, who played Larry Bud Melman on Late Night with David Letterman (and continued to appear, using his real name, on Dave's CBS show), has died. He was 85.

What!?! *doing-oing-oing-oing*

I missed hearing about that - I loved Larry Bud.