Chomper (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} chomper99) wrote,@ 2008-02-12 13:52:00 |
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Gerber gone
This won't mean much to anyone who does not grok comics but Steve Gerber died on Sunday aged 60.
He was the writer who created Howard the Duck in the 1970s, a comic which was years ahead of its time (try to forget that awful film). But I'll remember him most for his swamp monster character Man-Thing. I still marvel at how he could get so much emotional vibrancy and depth into stories about a shambling central character who couldn't talk and could barely think.
This won't mean much to anyone who does not grok comics but Steve Gerber died on Sunday aged 60.
He was the writer who created Howard the Duck in the 1970s, a comic which was years ahead of its time (try to forget that awful film). But I'll remember him most for his swamp monster character Man-Thing. I still marvel at how he could get so much emotional vibrancy and depth into stories about a shambling central character who couldn't talk and could barely think.
