Bad day for deaths with personal significance to me.
Joe Simon, co-creator with Jack Kirby of Captain America. One of the last of the Golden Age greats.
Eduardo Barreto, comic book artist, known to me for a long run in the late 80s/early 90s on New Teen Titans.
And now I see the great contrarian curmudgeon
Christopher Hitchens is gone, just as I'm starting his last collection of essays. I disagreed as often as I agreed with him, but his writing was never anything short of fascinating.
In Hitch's case not unexpected, and I know they say these things come in threes, but DAMN, that's a lot of reaping.