Steemol: A Nation Mourns
ScottJ, aka jinty hosts a raft of Steemol tribute links:
http://jinty.livejournal.com/477352.html
Though I think she may have missed this from Warren Ellis:
http://www.warrenellis.com/?p=5645
Update: Clemmo points me at Neil Gaiman's blog: http://journal.neilgaiman.com/
"I just learned that my old friend Steve Whitaker is dead. Steve was a terrific artist and a good guy, kind, helpful, generous, all that -- he's best known in the US for his work colouring V for Vendetta.
"He would have been the colourist on Sandman but he never turned in the sample pages he was given to colour, because they weren't quite perfect yet, and by the time he was nearly satisfied with them someone else already had the job. I learned a lot from that. I learned a lot about comics, about the history of comics, about strip cartoons, from Steve. I wish he'd been willing to draw more, to let it go, to feel more comfortable making mistakes in public. Mostly I wish he'd done more comics.
"He was 52. Too young."
http://jinty.livejournal.com/477352.html
Though I think she may have missed this from Warren Ellis:
http://www.warrenellis.com/?p=5645
Update: Clemmo points me at Neil Gaiman's blog: http://journal.neilgaiman.com/
"I just learned that my old friend Steve Whitaker is dead. Steve was a terrific artist and a good guy, kind, helpful, generous, all that -- he's best known in the US for his work colouring V for Vendetta.
"He would have been the colourist on Sandman but he never turned in the sample pages he was given to colour, because they weren't quite perfect yet, and by the time he was nearly satisfied with them someone else already had the job. I learned a lot from that. I learned a lot about comics, about the history of comics, about strip cartoons, from Steve. I wish he'd been willing to draw more, to let it go, to feel more comfortable making mistakes in public. Mostly I wish he'd done more comics.
"He was 52. Too young."