Dead Celebrity (Part 1)

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Brian May is not that old though.

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Or perhaps the man who would be king?

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I see what you did there.

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Duck Edwing, MAD Magazine cartoonist.

Fun fact: Duckā€™s wife Clair, was known as ā€œCluckā€!

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God damnit and truth be told the surviving usual gang of idiots arenā€™t getting any younger either.

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You ainā€™t kiddinā€™. Frank Jacobs and Mort Drucker are 87 years old. Al Jaffee is in his mid-90s. Jack Davis died earlier this year.

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I have to confess, Iā€™m not as familiar with Ricky Harris as I am with a lot of the other entertainers who have died this year, but he did a lot of stuff. And 54 years old? Damn.

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Iā€™ve got my copy of Good Days & Mad by Dick DeBartolo in front of me right now. This book usually makes me happy even though itā€™s mostly a tribute to the then-recently departed William Gaines, but, dammitā€¦

ETA

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Well, shit.

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I was just coming here to post this.

A friend of mine sent me the news in an email and ended it with ā€œThanks Donaldā€.

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I did. 1977 crushed my soul for celebrity deaths.

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I have a good excuse for not remembering that one. Although Scalzi doesnā€™t.

Googlesā€¦

Bing, Elvis, Chaplin, Groucho, Joan Crawford?

Anthony Eden? Werner von Braun?

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Freddie Prinze, Zero Mostel, Guy Lombardo too.

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Well, Iā€™ve heard of one of those and the son of anotherā€¦

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Oh, COME ON.

Fuck you with a Sith lightsaber, 2016. :rage:

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Iā€™m plenty old enough to remember '77. This year has been worse.

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I donā€™t think itā€™s Bowie. Itā€™s Lemmy.

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You and me both, man.

At this point, the water in the pot is about 211ĀŗF.

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