Carmine Infantino and George Gladir dead

[Bill K.]

Carmine Infantino, former star artist and at one time publisher for DC Comics, has passed away on April 4. He was 87. His credits are basically a who's who of comics features from DC's golden and silver age. He replaced Irwin Donenfeld as publisher of DC in 1970 and tried to drag a staid and flagging company into a new era in the face of stiff competition from Marvel. Some of his decisions were controversial, but he rarely shied from trying something new and different. After his dismissal from DC, he worked for Marvel, drawing Star Wars and creating the most famous Spider-Woman cover in the history of the run, at least among this board.

George Gladir, co-creator of Sabrina the Teenage Witch and chief writer for Cracked in the 60s and 70s, passed away on April 3. He was 88. Gladir also wrote stories for other Archie comics features from the 60s on. He was still having scripts published in Betty And Veronica as late as several months ago.

[cresent34]

First Ebert, now this.

Today officially blows..

[Sailornapper]

Well theres your 3. Ironic as it may be.

[patrickxtrem]

You mean 4, if you count Jane Henson