Tom Spurgeon, R.I.P.

Very sad to hear about the sudden and far-too-young death of Tom Spurgeon at age 50. Spurgeon is best known as the proprietor of The Comics Reporter, a long-running indispensable site for comic book news and information. He was also the editor of THE COMICS JOURNAL for several years in the 1990s.

I only had a few minor on-line interactions with Spurgeon over the years, but he was always pleasant and helpful, even in the face of sometimes sarcastic corrections (the only kind I know how to give). It was also very flattering to occasionally be able to answer a question or request he had on my peculiar fields of “expertise”.

A few of the many interviews on his site I enjoyed over the years
Stan Sakai
Stephen Bissette
James Vance
Jaime Hernandez
Kim Thompson

Spurgeon also wrote a comic strip for a few years, WILDWOOD, with creator Dan Wright. You can read a 2001 Christmas story over here.