Sony’s Norio Ohga passed away on April 23 at 81 years of age from multiple organ failure. Ohga is perhaps best known for driving the development of the compact disc, which Sony first released back in 1982.
Dwayne McDuffie, the comics and animation writer, editor and producer who died this week following complications from surgery, wasn’t a particularly flashy writer: His aesthetic was to get out of the way of the way of the story. But he was a forward-thinking creator, and he quietly wrote a stack of comics and animated TV [...]
Frank Frazetta, who passed away May 10 at the age of 82, wasn’t the most prolific comic book artist–his interior comics pages in the last four decades of his life, especially, were scarce to nonexistent. But his impact on American comics was enormous: the entire modern sword-and-sorcery genre is arguably directly descended from his paintings, [...]
