This was the last Sunday strip. Charles Schutlz died the day before this was published. Now that's depressing.
Mel Lazarus died of alzheimers, but told his wife the final strip idea decades ago. The main joke of the strip is that Momma is a huge b***h who's always saying she's going to die. For the final comic, Mel's idea was to actually make that real. After he died, his widow got comic strip artists at the Reuben Awards (named after Rube Goldberg) to collaborate on the last strip.
I only know about this because of the Hogan's Alley magazine. Robin Malone was a strip with great art and an odd plot that finally quit dabbling in satire and settled down into drama its final year,. Robin Malone was a rich jet set lady philanthropist and adventurer whose husband was presumed dead in a plane crash in the Amazon. It was drawn by Bob Lubbers, who also did 40s good girl comics art and the comic strip Long Tom (Tom is a hot innocent 18 year old). The strip's circulation sucked, and the syndicate dropped the hammer. What you see here is Robin's annoying niece Kathy in her final appearance, in the final Sunday strip. She presumably died as a passenger in a car crash on the Georgia back roads.
Mel Lazarus died of alzheimers, but told his wife the final strip idea decades ago. The main joke of the strip is that Momma is a huge b***h who's always saying she's going to die. For the final comic, Mel's idea was to actually make that real. After he died, his widow got comic strip artists at the Reuben Awards (named after Rube Goldberg) to collaborate on the last strip.
I only know about this because of the Hogan's Alley magazine. Robin Malone was a strip with great art and an odd plot that finally quit dabbling in satire and settled down into drama its final year,. Robin Malone was a rich jet set lady philanthropist and adventurer whose husband was presumed dead in a plane crash in the Amazon. It was drawn by Bob Lubbers, who also did 40s good girl comics art and the comic strip Long Tom (Tom is a hot innocent 18 year old). The strip's circulation sucked, and the syndicate dropped the hammer. What you see here is Robin's annoying niece Kathy in her final appearance, in the final Sunday strip. She presumably died as a passenger in a car crash on the Georgia back roads.
>the Hogan's Alley magazine. Robin Malone was a strip with great art and an odd plot that finally quit dabbling in satire and settled down into drama its final year,. Robin Malone was a rich jet set lady philanthropist and adventurer whose husband was presumed dead in a plane crash in the Amazon. It was drawn by Bob Lubbers, who also did 40s good girl comics art and the comic strip Long Tom (Tom is a hot innocent 18 year old). The strip's circulation sucked, and the syndicate dropped the hammer. What you see here is Robin's annoying niece Kathy in her final appearance, in the final Sunday strip. She presumably died as a passenger in a car crash on the Georgia back roads.
Mike, her husband, was found brain damaged to the point of insanity by Robin's main enemy. He was brainwashed to want to hate and kill her. Robin got an invitation to her foe's penthouse, along with all her main friends and enemies. She brought Hickory, the man who managed her baseball team and served as her guardian. She is also in love with him.Guess who else is there? Crazy evil Mike.
Mike, her husband, was found brain damaged to the point of insanity by Robin's main enemy. He was brainwashed to want to hate and kill her. Robin got an invitation to her foe's penthouse, along with all her main friends and enemies. She brought Hickory, the man who managed her baseball team and served as her guardian. She is also in love with him.Guess who else is there? Crazy evil Mike.
Rather obscure since not a lot of people watched this cartoon, but this was a show called "A Little Curious" from HBO which first aired in 1999 and ended in 2000. The final episode discussed life and death in one sequence. Fast forward to the end, the entire cast sings "Row Row Row Your Boat" as the row their boat to the sunset. The song even had a heavenly like melody to it, which made it particularly sorta depressing.
Yeah Bob the Ball, Mop, Door named Doris, there was cup of juice called Little Cup I believe, Plush Bobs dog that was a multicolored stuffed dog toy, and a few others.
Look within yourself. We would have had another boat arc filled with miuras fetish of the week that would’ve led to them going to that Indian/Arabic country that’s against Griffith
>So how will it end then?
not a berserk reader but iirc from what's been said around me, guts still considers griffith "precious" so he can sacrifice him
Miura story ended in Golden Age, after that it was just Guts going for one place to other and it slowly wasn't berserk anymore, it was Guts&Friends DnD campaign against falconia.
And I doubt he wanted to finish it, that's why he did gigantomakhia
https://www.abandonedamerica.us/one-last-masterpiece
Percy Crosby created the comic strip Skippy, and was unjustly institutionalized when he fought a peanut butter brand trying to steal the name of his strip. He made many political enemies, so no one helped him.
>corporation steals your life work >uses their money to turn you into a schizo >get you institutionalized and prevents you from ever seeing your family
this is by far the saddest and scariest story i've seen in these threads
That thread about the people who worked on adventures of sonic the hedgehog the one with the pingas robotnik couldn't find jobs in the animation industry anymore due to ageism
The guy that animated the Ed Edd n Eddy intro was shot to death by police in the middle of the street because he was in the middle of mental breakdown and holding a bike chain.
That was a lie, all 3 of the Eds' voice actors are currently still alive Eddy's actor Tony Sampson quit doing voice work though after getting threatened with being blacklisted over asking for a raise.
> In May 2004, Burson's career came to an end when he was arrested by detectives after barricading himself inside his home in Tujunga for six hours before surrendering. Initial reports claimed that an armed S.W.A.T. team had responded to a call from two of his female roommates that he was drunk, armed and holding a third female roommate hostage.[3][4] Burson also screamed a stream of nonsensical words at the police when they were alerted to his home. Officers later discovered that Burson had a collection of guns in his home. One officer said, "He was so drunk, we couldn't tell if he was trying to do one of his voices or was just slurring his words." Officer Rudy Villarreal confirmed that all three women involved in the incident lived with Burson, but none of them were harmed.[5] The incident caused Burson to be blacklisted for the rest of his life.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Burson
>jack kirby spent a decade of his career in animation >despite all his show pitches and profound art talent he was tasked with making character designs for bottom of the barrel shit like turbo teen >ditko fared little better as he had to make ends meet by working on gobots storybooks and marvel tie in media comics
Try watching any perestroika era animated cartoons and there's some depressing vibes to it yet also experimental too but not all of them are such as this.
On this topic, does anyone know why or how death is censored in cartoons? I know Grim is personified Death, but it's still relevant.
When YuGiOh and similar 4kids dub shows aired on American television, they completely gutted any reference to death in them. Was there some kind of change at some point to not even elude to death, or was that just for localization and unique to anime?
Maybe Grim is just an exception because he's /our death/? He's a western depiction of death, not a dirty foreigners depiction of death? Can anyone think of more modern cartoons that explicitly talk about death?
king of funny how the GX 4Kids dub kept most of the deaths from the original and the one they did censor they still kept the fact that the fricker was dead
frick, the only use of the Shadow Realm in the dub was technically correct thanks to Season 4
I watched an episode of Ben 10 a week ago and was surprised by how few punches it pulled. The cops were shooting real bullets, and there were actual references to death instead of ham-fisted workarounds.
Yu-gi-oh specifically: they were overly cautious censoring everything that could be remotely contentious, because a controversy like the ones Harry Potter and Pokemon received would've been disastrous when the series unironically was based on black magic.
Not sure if it's depressing but it really blows my mind that the last movie released on VHS (that isn't an ironic meme pressing) was literally CARS, the last Pixar film they made before Yidsney took over
No the last movie to get a wide release on VHS was A History Of Violence (which was based off a comic so it’s still Cinemaphile related) although I’m pretty sure Cars was still the last ANIMATED movie to get a wide VHS released
Jucika's creator Pál Pusztai suffered from a heart condition, which he treated by taking swimming trips in Croatia, accompanied by his doctor. On one of these trips, he had a heart attack as he was getting out of the sea and his doctor couldn't save him. He might have lived longer, had he not tried to keep his body in shape.
After he died, nearly all original Jucika strips and other artwork were thrown into a fire by his widow who was mad that her husband obsessed over his comic character.
The sketch of the final official Jucika strip was found in his work desk and sloppily finished by his colleagues.
>nearly all original Jucika strips and other artwork were thrown into a fire by his widow who was mad that her husband obsessed over his comic character.
What a fricking b***h
plot twist: his original sketches were also covered in embarrassing pornographic drawings of himself being pegged by jucika, and she destroyed them to preserve his legacy
You're reminding me of Tezuka's weird furry porn he had stashed away that his daughter later found, but instead of feeling shame she blasted them all over the internet (good ending)
Honestly wouldn't surprise me if there were some unpublished, uncensored drawings among the destroyed stuff. It's known that the magazine that published Pusztai's art censored them on occasion.
More ways Jack Kirby's life sucked: He started losing sight in one eye in the late 70s, but covered it up so he wouldn't lose work. As he became a young man in the 1930s, during the Great Depression, providing for his family no matter what was his m.o. Everyone made fun of Kirby's 80s art because it was going rough and losing perspective. They thought he was losing fine motor control. We didn't find out about the eye thing until a few years ago.
Another way Kirby's life sucked: Marvel kept all the original art from all its artists in a vast warehouse from the 60s (or 50s?) until the 80s. Any existing Kirby original art on the market not sourced from his family was probably stolen from that warehouse. Kirby used to confront guys at cons with booths selling his original work and ask how they got it, and they played dumb. When Kirby tried to get his original art back from Marvel in the 80s, it became a big cause for fandom. He only ever got a fraction of his art back. What happened to most of it? A guy who wrote into the Jack Kirby Collector spilled the beans. When the warehouse was getting too full, art would be incinerated at random. The guy felt horrible about it, but desperately needed the money. So he burnt wads of Kirby art when ordered to do so. Now how much original art was lost from the 60s to the 80s in general from Marvel? A lot.
Pinto Colvig, the voice of Goofy, Pluto, and many other Disney characters died of lung cancer in 1967, not long after Walt. This cartoon in particular is depressing considering this.
There are Goofy cartoons that were made before a new voice actor took over after Colvig's passing, meaning that the iconic Goofy yells you hear in those shorts are the yells of a dead man.
Stan Lee helped screw over Kirby to please his corporate masters, but was screwed over himself in the end. Marvel fired him from his position of honor in 1999 or so, and he sunk his name and money into a comic and web business called Stan Lee enterprises. It was run by a huckster named Peter Paul, who ran it into the ground and ran off with the money. Stan got rehired by Marvel in the early 2000s, but still had to hustle for money. His wife was a money grubbing b***h, and his daughter was double money grubbing, as well as mistreating him. Stan fell into the clutches of hucksters as his dementia kicked in. They had him at cons, propped up like Weekend At Bernie's, signing autographs with an X because he couldn't write his name. They also unironically took his blood and used it to make collectibles. For all his fame, Stan Lee was never truly financially comfortable or happy. His family and business hangers on sucked.
Gil Kane was a great artist with a crap life. He was a severe alcoholic whi struggled with money, and near the end of his life was asked how he would do things differently. His reply? He would "chop his hands off".
Bill Everett, the creator of Sub-Mariner, had severe alcohoism and personal problems, and died broke as well. Dc screwed over Siegel and Schuster, the creators of Superman, by firing them when they asked for more money in 1947. They were living in severe poverty on SSI in 1976, when Neal Adams found out DC was getting ready to make a Superman movie (1978). He worked the media and made sure DC comics was shamed in the public eye. It took prolonged, severe public embarassment for DC to give Superman's creators a small stipend to live on until they died.
Bill Finger, who helped co-create Batman, was screwed over by Bob Kane until the day he died. Kane used signing with DC while underage as leverage while renegotiating his contract in the early 40s. He made it a contractual rule that he had to be credited as the writer and artist on all Batman comics, even though he had a small army of ghost writers ans ghost artists. Anything Bob Kane ever drew or painted was traced or ripped off from someone else, probably. He even traced a McFarlane piece in 1988 when asked to draw a piece for a comics magazine. DC couldn't renegotiate the contract until the late 60s, so any Batman past 1940 with Bob Kane as sole creator credit is b.s. Sheldon Moldoff, Jerry Robinson, Dick Sprang, Lew Sayre Schwartz, Stan Kaye, and Carmine Infantino drew Batman during this time. Bill Finger was the main writer, with Gardner Fox coming in starting in 1963. After he died, DC was shamed into sending his "family" a stipend. Guess what? It was actually a con artist getting the money for *decades*, until Marc Taylor Nobleman started researching "Bill the Boy Wonder: The Secret History Of The Co-Creator of Batman". Then he found Athena Gibson, the real granddaughter, who was a single mom on public assistance. She was given a small royalty amount each month thereafter. DC offered her a small amount of money in 2012 to give up her grandpa's co-creator status. She said frick you and kept lawyering up until 2015, when the court made her grandpa the formal co-creator of Batman. Bob Kane's tombstone says he is the sole creator of Batman. Jim Steranko slapped the shit out of him in an elevator at a 70s con. Go Steranko.
I wanted to post depressing bits from Dick Tracy, but the comic is so hardcore it's made of depressing bits. (And I can't find the sites I used to look for comic strip scans before).
This is from Cinemaphile but the whole Bruiser Brody murder fiasco. Brody was an butthole irl but loved by the fans and colleagues. He was stabbed to death on Puerto Rico. He was so big that they had to broke his legs to have him fit inside his casket. Also Kamala last years were pretty depressing for any of his fans.
Ian McGinty died on June 8 at 38. Stress from the grind of working on comics and cartoons helped finish him off. Now #comicsbrokeme is trending, with people telling their stories of how the industry is working them to near death for not much money. Haven't researched the tag yet, because I'm depressed enough. Of course, the manga industry has been working its creators to death on a weekly basis since its inception for not much money. I could fill a thread on /a with that alone if they gave a damn about old manga.
Irene Vartanoff was a young lady who loved writing letters to comic book letter columns, and was a fandom regular. She was hired as a teenager to come work for DC. Her welcome to the industry, and New York? Getting sexually assaulted by Carmine Infantino in a limo. (He had a long history of this. No one at DC cared. They also let Julius Schwartz grope women at cons for decades, with only an occasional minder to keep his hands at bay. Eddie Berganza was allowed to run the Superman and Wonder Woman editorial at DC, despite a proven track record of sexual harassment, and their solution was to not hire any women on his books. Tl:;dr DC has a track record of this.) She tried to find work elsewhere in the industy, but no one wanted to hire a young woman. Irene Vartanoff had to write romance novels to survive, and stayed the frick away from comics for the rest of her life.
The list of comic creators who invented major characters, and wound up broke enough to have to beg and crowdfund for money for medical expenses is endless.
Otto Binder wrote for 40s Captain Marvel, then Superman (as well as many other comics and SF novels). He created Mary Marvel, then Supergirl. Mary Marvel was based on his daughter. She was killed by a car in 1967, and Binder spent the rest if his life going deep into spiritualism to try and contact her. Tom King thought it would be cute to make this a plot point in his shitty Rorschach series. Frick Tom King.
Two months before the first episode of Rocko's Modern Life aired, creator Joe Murray's wife committed suicide. He had a lot of self-guilt over the situation and blamed Rocko getting picked up for it. He wondered, if he wasn't so busy working on the cartoon, if he could've been there to stop her. >“It’s hard to not look at Rocko and think about that whole thing in my head,” he tells Vanity Fair. “It was like part of me wanted to do the show and part of me didn’t. I kind of blamed Rocko for it. Even though it was a suicide. In retrospect, I don’t think that — but at the time I thought, maybe if I hadn’t done Rocko she wouldn’t have done that. And there were times I would think, if this happened because of that then, well, Rocko better kick ass. This has to be good.”
Tom and Jerry: The Mansion cat was made in 2001, so no
He probably meant the last original thing H-B made, not the last actual thing they made.
Which would probably place the pilot for Robot Jones as their last, if you really think about it. "Whatever Happened to Hanna-Barbera," anyone?
Ducky voice actress
I miss Phil Hartman
That's right. b***h pulled a Heath Leger years before Heath. yep yep yep
This is the last strip of Peanuts
>not Chuck and Patty having hot wild sex
Now THAT'S depressing.
I once read that at this point Schulz couldn't hold a pencil steady, so he scribbled rain over this strip to hide his messy lines
I can believe that looking at the comic.
This was her last appearance on January 2nd, 2000 but the strip ran for about another month before it ended.
Depression thread?
Depression thread...
God bless the artists but damn the suits for how they treated Mel and his kid
He had a kid? I thought he was shooting blancs
Carlos!
Yeah, he could’ve potentially done the voices for the characters afterwards to pass on the mantle but Warner ultimately went with other VA’s.
Justified if they went with better VA's, but a terrible decision indeed if he was better than them.
This was the last Sunday strip. Charles Schutlz died the day before this was published. Now that's depressing.
He kept working until the very end, making strips on his deathbed.
Some would call that dedication, others would say his priorities were skewed. Those last moments should have been spent with loved ones.
Those characters were his loved ones
He had a wife and kids.
isn't this kind of how calvin n hobbes ended too.
no? watterson is still alive
Mel Lazarus died of alzheimers, but told his wife the final strip idea decades ago. The main joke of the strip is that Momma is a huge b***h who's always saying she's going to die. For the final comic, Mel's idea was to actually make that real. After he died, his widow got comic strip artists at the Reuben Awards (named after Rube Goldberg) to collaborate on the last strip.
I only know about this because of the Hogan's Alley magazine. Robin Malone was a strip with great art and an odd plot that finally quit dabbling in satire and settled down into drama its final year,. Robin Malone was a rich jet set lady philanthropist and adventurer whose husband was presumed dead in a plane crash in the Amazon. It was drawn by Bob Lubbers, who also did 40s good girl comics art and the comic strip Long Tom (Tom is a hot innocent 18 year old). The strip's circulation sucked, and the syndicate dropped the hammer. What you see here is Robin's annoying niece Kathy in her final appearance, in the final Sunday strip. She presumably died as a passenger in a car crash on the Georgia back roads.
>the Hogan's Alley magazine. Robin Malone was a strip with great art and an odd plot that finally quit dabbling in satire and settled down into drama its final year,. Robin Malone was a rich jet set lady philanthropist and adventurer whose husband was presumed dead in a plane crash in the Amazon. It was drawn by Bob Lubbers, who also did 40s good girl comics art and the comic strip Long Tom (Tom is a hot innocent 18 year old). The strip's circulation sucked, and the syndicate dropped the hammer. What you see here is Robin's annoying niece Kathy in her final appearance, in the final Sunday strip. She presumably died as a passenger in a car crash on the Georgia back roads.
Never heard of this but is interesting.
Mike, her husband, was found brain damaged to the point of insanity by Robin's main enemy. He was brainwashed to want to hate and kill her. Robin got an invitation to her foe's penthouse, along with all her main friends and enemies. She brought Hickory, the man who managed her baseball team and served as her guardian. She is also in love with him.Guess who else is there? Crazy evil Mike.
Here is her canon death.
Here is the alt strip where she lives
Rather obscure since not a lot of people watched this cartoon, but this was a show called "A Little Curious" from HBO which first aired in 1999 and ended in 2000. The final episode discussed life and death in one sequence. Fast forward to the end, the entire cast sings "Row Row Row Your Boat" as the row their boat to the sunset. The song even had a heavenly like melody to it, which made it particularly sorta depressing.
I remember this show, I remember there being a red ball with a high pitch voice, a female broom, a dog, ect.
What?
Yeah Bob the Ball, Mop, Door named Doris, there was cup of juice called Little Cup I believe, Plush Bobs dog that was a multicolored stuffed dog toy, and a few others.
Holy shit really? I watched this in HBO all the time as a kid. Man I hope Bob was okay I loved that little guy.
Bob is dead and you can't do anything about it anon.
Miura died leaving Berserk unfinished
it's kind of obvious how the series is gonna end with the hints dropped throughout. so it's not like some grand mystery was left unanswered
So how will it end then?
Things were actually starting to happen again
Look within yourself. We would have had another boat arc filled with miuras fetish of the week that would’ve led to them going to that Indian/Arabic country that’s against Griffith
>So how will it end then?
not a berserk reader but iirc from what's been said around me, guts still considers griffith "precious" so he can sacrifice him
That’s anime but let’s be honest. Berserk was going down hill way before his death, you wanted a boat arc part 2?
Miura story ended in Golden Age, after that it was just Guts going for one place to other and it slowly wasn't berserk anymore, it was Guts&Friends DnD campaign against falconia.
And I doubt he wanted to finish it, that's why he did gigantomakhia
Togashi is also going the same path. He returned like a year ago, did like ten issues that barely advanced the plot and went on hiatus again.
https://www.abandonedamerica.us/one-last-masterpiece
Percy Crosby created the comic strip Skippy, and was unjustly institutionalized when he fought a peanut butter brand trying to steal the name of his strip. He made many political enemies, so no one helped him.
>corporation steals your life work
>uses their money to turn you into a schizo
>get you institutionalized and prevents you from ever seeing your family
this is by far the saddest and scariest story i've seen in these threads
That thread about the people who worked on adventures of sonic the hedgehog the one with the pingas robotnik couldn't find jobs in the animation industry anymore due to ageism
>last line the original Spanish (Spain) VA of Homer recorded before his death
the simpsons should have ended in that episode
the simpsons should of ended like 20 seasons ago.
Judith Barsi (Anne-Marie's voice actress in All Dogs Go to Heaven) was murdered by her father before the film's release, she was 10 years old.
Kinda sucks you dont even get to see the movie you starred in.
She probably got an early screening with the rest of the cast
Yep yep yep
How grim...
>Not "The Last of School Bus"
It even rhymes...
>last thing Hanna-Barbera made
The Gumball studio rebranded as Hanna-Babera Studios Europe a few years ago.
Quite literal as it was the duo’s last project together for over 60 years since “puss gets the boot” before one of them passed away.
>Grim got a hanna barbera logo but the PPG didn't.
>brings /misc/ out of nowhere
That's not depressing. It's actually pretty damn funny.
can you not try to start a flame war for one second
The guy that animated the Ed Edd n Eddy intro was shot to death by police in the middle of the street because he was in the middle of mental breakdown and holding a bike chain.
I thought that was the voice actor for ED.
That was a lie, all 3 of the Eds' voice actors are currently still alive Eddy's actor Tony Sampson quit doing voice work though after getting threatened with being blacklisted over asking for a raise.
He then went on to make hella money from doing oil mining so I'm glad it worked out for him. A true Eddy move.
No wonder cops were so hated
> In May 2004, Burson's career came to an end when he was arrested by detectives after barricading himself inside his home in Tujunga for six hours before surrendering. Initial reports claimed that an armed S.W.A.T. team had responded to a call from two of his female roommates that he was drunk, armed and holding a third female roommate hostage.[3][4] Burson also screamed a stream of nonsensical words at the police when they were alerted to his home. Officers later discovered that Burson had a collection of guns in his home. One officer said, "He was so drunk, we couldn't tell if he was trying to do one of his voices or was just slurring his words." Officer Rudy Villarreal confirmed that all three women involved in the incident lived with Burson, but none of them were harmed.[5] The incident caused Burson to be blacklisted for the rest of his life.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Burson
Oh, right, isn't this where that thing about Yogi Bear's voice actor being a drunken psychopath came from?
Tex Avery's final work was on a shitty Koala cartoon that nobody remembers.
>jack kirby spent a decade of his career in animation
>despite all his show pitches and profound art talent he was tasked with making character designs for bottom of the barrel shit like turbo teen
>ditko fared little better as he had to make ends meet by working on gobots storybooks and marvel tie in media comics
Try watching any perestroika era animated cartoons and there's some depressing vibes to it yet also experimental too but not all of them are such as this.
On this topic, does anyone know why or how death is censored in cartoons? I know Grim is personified Death, but it's still relevant.
When YuGiOh and similar 4kids dub shows aired on American television, they completely gutted any reference to death in them. Was there some kind of change at some point to not even elude to death, or was that just for localization and unique to anime?
Maybe Grim is just an exception because he's /our death/? He's a western depiction of death, not a dirty foreigners depiction of death? Can anyone think of more modern cartoons that explicitly talk about death?
Parents would complain about it
king of funny how the GX 4Kids dub kept most of the deaths from the original and the one they did censor they still kept the fact that the fricker was dead
frick, the only use of the Shadow Realm in the dub was technically correct thanks to Season 4
I watched an episode of Ben 10 a week ago and was surprised by how few punches it pulled. The cops were shooting real bullets, and there were actual references to death instead of ham-fisted workarounds.
Yu-gi-oh specifically: they were overly cautious censoring everything that could be remotely contentious, because a controversy like the ones Harry Potter and Pokemon received would've been disastrous when the series unironically was based on black magic.
Anything else, Cinemaphilebros?
Not sure if it's depressing but it really blows my mind that the last movie released on VHS (that isn't an ironic meme pressing) was literally CARS, the last Pixar film they made before Yidsney took over
I thought the last one was eragon
No the last movie to get a wide release on VHS was A History Of Violence (which was based off a comic so it’s still Cinemaphile related) although I’m pretty sure Cars was still the last ANIMATED movie to get a wide VHS released
whoops forgot my pic
>called "a History of Violence"
>covers a few days at most
>is actually fictional
Can't trust Hollywood
Wow, I can literally smell the plastic from that tape just by looking at the pic
KINO!
Jucika's creator Pál Pusztai suffered from a heart condition, which he treated by taking swimming trips in Croatia, accompanied by his doctor. On one of these trips, he had a heart attack as he was getting out of the sea and his doctor couldn't save him. He might have lived longer, had he not tried to keep his body in shape.
After he died, nearly all original Jucika strips and other artwork were thrown into a fire by his widow who was mad that her husband obsessed over his comic character.
The sketch of the final official Jucika strip was found in his work desk and sloppily finished by his colleagues.
>nearly all original Jucika strips and other artwork were thrown into a fire by his widow who was mad that her husband obsessed over his comic character.
What a fricking b***h
plot twist: his original sketches were also covered in embarrassing pornographic drawings of himself being pegged by jucika, and she destroyed them to preserve his legacy
You're reminding me of Tezuka's weird furry porn he had stashed away that his daughter later found, but instead of feeling shame she blasted them all over the internet (good ending)
Honestly wouldn't surprise me if there were some unpublished, uncensored drawings among the destroyed stuff. It's known that the magazine that published Pusztai's art censored them on occasion.
Have any porn artists attempted to remake it? To preserve his legacy. It's what he would want.
>wife cucked by husband's waifu
More ways Jack Kirby's life sucked: He started losing sight in one eye in the late 70s, but covered it up so he wouldn't lose work. As he became a young man in the 1930s, during the Great Depression, providing for his family no matter what was his m.o. Everyone made fun of Kirby's 80s art because it was going rough and losing perspective. They thought he was losing fine motor control. We didn't find out about the eye thing until a few years ago.
Another way Kirby's life sucked: Marvel kept all the original art from all its artists in a vast warehouse from the 60s (or 50s?) until the 80s. Any existing Kirby original art on the market not sourced from his family was probably stolen from that warehouse. Kirby used to confront guys at cons with booths selling his original work and ask how they got it, and they played dumb. When Kirby tried to get his original art back from Marvel in the 80s, it became a big cause for fandom. He only ever got a fraction of his art back. What happened to most of it? A guy who wrote into the Jack Kirby Collector spilled the beans. When the warehouse was getting too full, art would be incinerated at random. The guy felt horrible about it, but desperately needed the money. So he burnt wads of Kirby art when ordered to do so. Now how much original art was lost from the 60s to the 80s in general from Marvel? A lot.
Pinto Colvig, the voice of Goofy, Pluto, and many other Disney characters died of lung cancer in 1967, not long after Walt. This cartoon in particular is depressing considering this.
There are Goofy cartoons that were made before a new voice actor took over after Colvig's passing, meaning that the iconic Goofy yells you hear in those shorts are the yells of a dead man.
The holler wasn't done by Pinto Colvig, it was done by a yodeler for The Art of Skiing.
Ah, I see.
Stan Lee helped screw over Kirby to please his corporate masters, but was screwed over himself in the end. Marvel fired him from his position of honor in 1999 or so, and he sunk his name and money into a comic and web business called Stan Lee enterprises. It was run by a huckster named Peter Paul, who ran it into the ground and ran off with the money. Stan got rehired by Marvel in the early 2000s, but still had to hustle for money. His wife was a money grubbing b***h, and his daughter was double money grubbing, as well as mistreating him. Stan fell into the clutches of hucksters as his dementia kicked in. They had him at cons, propped up like Weekend At Bernie's, signing autographs with an X because he couldn't write his name. They also unironically took his blood and used it to make collectibles. For all his fame, Stan Lee was never truly financially comfortable or happy. His family and business hangers on sucked.
Gil Kane was a great artist with a crap life. He was a severe alcoholic whi struggled with money, and near the end of his life was asked how he would do things differently. His reply? He would "chop his hands off".
Is pol on here right now?
I mean probably.
I just don't know what it has to do with judith's death, it was way before like 99% of the board was even born.
Bill Everett, the creator of Sub-Mariner, had severe alcohoism and personal problems, and died broke as well. Dc screwed over Siegel and Schuster, the creators of Superman, by firing them when they asked for more money in 1947. They were living in severe poverty on SSI in 1976, when Neal Adams found out DC was getting ready to make a Superman movie (1978). He worked the media and made sure DC comics was shamed in the public eye. It took prolonged, severe public embarassment for DC to give Superman's creators a small stipend to live on until they died.
Bill Finger, who helped co-create Batman, was screwed over by Bob Kane until the day he died. Kane used signing with DC while underage as leverage while renegotiating his contract in the early 40s. He made it a contractual rule that he had to be credited as the writer and artist on all Batman comics, even though he had a small army of ghost writers ans ghost artists. Anything Bob Kane ever drew or painted was traced or ripped off from someone else, probably. He even traced a McFarlane piece in 1988 when asked to draw a piece for a comics magazine. DC couldn't renegotiate the contract until the late 60s, so any Batman past 1940 with Bob Kane as sole creator credit is b.s. Sheldon Moldoff, Jerry Robinson, Dick Sprang, Lew Sayre Schwartz, Stan Kaye, and Carmine Infantino drew Batman during this time. Bill Finger was the main writer, with Gardner Fox coming in starting in 1963. After he died, DC was shamed into sending his "family" a stipend. Guess what? It was actually a con artist getting the money for *decades*, until Marc Taylor Nobleman started researching "Bill the Boy Wonder: The Secret History Of The Co-Creator of Batman". Then he found Athena Gibson, the real granddaughter, who was a single mom on public assistance. She was given a small royalty amount each month thereafter. DC offered her a small amount of money in 2012 to give up her grandpa's co-creator status. She said frick you and kept lawyering up until 2015, when the court made her grandpa the formal co-creator of Batman. Bob Kane's tombstone says he is the sole creator of Batman. Jim Steranko slapped the shit out of him in an elevator at a 70s con. Go Steranko.
>Jim Steranko slapped the shit out of him in an elevator at a 70s con
I read about that years ago. It was such a Chad move.
>still repeating this patently untrue story
Bob Kane is and will always be the creator of Batman. Frick your ambulance chasers.
There is a convention award for creators called the "Bill Finger" award, in an attempt to give him a bit of honor.
I wanted to post depressing bits from Dick Tracy, but the comic is so hardcore it's made of depressing bits. (And I can't find the sites I used to look for comic strip scans before).
This is from Cinemaphile but the whole Bruiser Brody murder fiasco. Brody was an butthole irl but loved by the fans and colleagues. He was stabbed to death on Puerto Rico. He was so big that they had to broke his legs to have him fit inside his casket. Also Kamala last years were pretty depressing for any of his fans.
Kamala got screwed by a lot of people but he had special hatred for Abdullah the butcher.
https://www.amazon.com/Bill-Boy-Wonder-Secret-Co-Creator/dp/1580892892?ref_=ast_author_dp
Book with actual research and interviews as proof on the author's web site, Kane shill.
Ian McGinty died on June 8 at 38. Stress from the grind of working on comics and cartoons helped finish him off. Now #comicsbrokeme is trending, with people telling their stories of how the industry is working them to near death for not much money. Haven't researched the tag yet, because I'm depressed enough. Of course, the manga industry has been working its creators to death on a weekly basis since its inception for not much money. I could fill a thread on /a with that alone if they gave a damn about old manga.
Irene Vartanoff was a young lady who loved writing letters to comic book letter columns, and was a fandom regular. She was hired as a teenager to come work for DC. Her welcome to the industry, and New York? Getting sexually assaulted by Carmine Infantino in a limo. (He had a long history of this. No one at DC cared. They also let Julius Schwartz grope women at cons for decades, with only an occasional minder to keep his hands at bay. Eddie Berganza was allowed to run the Superman and Wonder Woman editorial at DC, despite a proven track record of sexual harassment, and their solution was to not hire any women on his books. Tl:;dr DC has a track record of this.) She tried to find work elsewhere in the industy, but no one wanted to hire a young woman. Irene Vartanoff had to write romance novels to survive, and stayed the frick away from comics for the rest of her life.
The list of comic creators who invented major characters, and wound up broke enough to have to beg and crowdfund for money for medical expenses is endless.
Otto Binder wrote for 40s Captain Marvel, then Superman (as well as many other comics and SF novels). He created Mary Marvel, then Supergirl. Mary Marvel was based on his daughter. She was killed by a car in 1967, and Binder spent the rest if his life going deep into spiritualism to try and contact her. Tom King thought it would be cute to make this a plot point in his shitty Rorschach series. Frick Tom King.
Two months before the first episode of Rocko's Modern Life aired, creator Joe Murray's wife committed suicide. He had a lot of self-guilt over the situation and blamed Rocko getting picked up for it. He wondered, if he wasn't so busy working on the cartoon, if he could've been there to stop her.
>“It’s hard to not look at Rocko and think about that whole thing in my head,” he tells Vanity Fair. “It was like part of me wanted to do the show and part of me didn’t. I kind of blamed Rocko for it. Even though it was a suicide. In retrospect, I don’t think that — but at the time I thought, maybe if I hadn’t done Rocko she wouldn’t have done that. And there were times I would think, if this happened because of that then, well, Rocko better kick ass. This has to be good.”