Will Elder has passed on
Journalista! | May 15, 2008 EXTRA: Will Elder dies
I’ve just received word that Mad Magazine pioneer and Little Annie Fanny co-creator Will Elder died earlier this morning. He was 86 years old. I have no specifics regarding the cause of death; the funeral will take place on Sunday in New Jersey.
Journalista! | May 16, 2008: The Bob Montana Memorial OrgyA longer report will appear here tomorrow.
Let me first point you to Will Elder’s Wikipedia page, which has a rather good biography of the artist, as well as his Lambiek page and of course Elder’s homepage, where you can see a video in which Harvey Kurtzman, Al Jaffee, Terry Gilliam and Jerry Garcia discuss Elder and his work. Scott Edelman has the official press release from DC Comics, current owners of Mad Magazine. Here are news reports from the New York Observer’s Matt Haber and French-language site ActuaBD (Google translation), and here are tributes and remembrances from Tom Richmond, Mark Evanier, Will Pfeifer and Evan Dorkin.