Michael Turner, 1971 – 2008
Comic artist Michael Turner passed away last Friday night at the age of 37. Comics fans probably know he’d been battling bone cancer since 2000, but it finally got him. Besides creating Fathom and Aspen Studios, Turner was known for his amazing art on Witchblade, Identity Crisis, Spider-man, Batman/Superman and more. I’d never met the man, but by all accounts he was a super-nice guy, and certainly, the comics industry is poorer for his loss. (Via Newsarama)
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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.