Comic and Cartooning Arts 2017 Deaths

Compiled for the Comics Research Bibliography, this compilation is greatly aided by DD Deggs' work on rec.arts.comic.strips at Google groups. Additions or corrections are welcome and marked with a *.

Deaths in 2017 included Disney ‘imagineer’ Xavier Atencio, British cartoonist Edmund Bagwell, British comic book artist Jim Baikie, New Zealand’s Murray Ball, Groundwood Books publisher Sheila Barry, Leo Baxendale, editorial cartoonist Richard Benbrook, National Register editorial cartoonist Tom Berger, caricaturist Bob Bowman, minicomics creator Shane Patrick Boyle, Geof Brooks, Dick Bruna, Rich Buckler, Italian western writer Renzo Calegari, comic book artist John Calnan, religious cartoonist Gary Cangemi, North County NY News editorial cartoonist Daniel Capozzi, Argentine cartoonist Carlos "Chingolo" Casalla, comic book artist Tommy Castillo, Clint’s Comics owner Jim Cavanaugh,  comic book fan Mike Chary, Argentina’s Juan Carlos “Landrú” Colombres, Spanish comics scholar Javier Coma, Ecolo/Jest ‘cartoonist’ Bill Dana, Mexico’s Eduardo “Rius” del Río, Brazilian comics historian Álvaro de Moya, Jay Disbrow, gag cartoonist John Drummond, gag and editorial cartoonist Michael T. Dugan, Goose Creek SC newspaper editorial cartoonist Eric Elj, Rooftop O’Toole comic strip writer Bill Farmer, pioneering African–American publisher Bertram A. Fitzgerald Jr., animation voice June Foray, comic strip collection editor Herb Galewitz, Marvel Entertainment President James Galton, Smurfs cartoonist Pascal Garray, caricaturist Gerry Gersten, Bugs Bunny animator Bob Givens, Sam Glanzman, French cartoonist Annie Goetzinger, painter Basil Gogos, Alaskan cartoonist Jane Hafling, MAD writer Stan Hart, animator Joe Harris, Toon Books cartoonist Geoffrey Hayes, Playboy’s Hugh Hefner, Broadway Superman Bob Holiday, female Golden Age comic book artist Fran Hopper, comic book inker Dave Hunt, Czech scientist and cartoonist Pavel Kantorek, Pogo scion Carolyn Kelly, comic strip creator Don Kracke, Don Dutch cartoonist Jan Kruis, cartoonist turned actor Martin Landau, Australian political cartoonist Bill Leak, Joan “Mrs. Stan” Lee, Commando artist Gordon Livingstone, comic book inker Victor Llamas, Dick Locher, comic book writer Vic Lockman, Bob Lubbers, Jay Lynch, Wonder Woman ‘museum’ owner Moulton “Pete” Marston, Australian comic book creator Arthur Richard Mather, SF/fantasy and briefly Buck Rogers writer Julian May, comic and animation writer Jack Mendelsohn, gag cartoonist Ray Mims, Indian cartoonist T. Mohan, Mexican cartoonist Angel Mora, comics blogger Tim O’Shea, comic strip gag writer Robert Parati, Woodstock Independent editorial cartoonist Jim Pearson, newspaper illustrator Al Phillips, Comic Revolution store employee Rachel Price, Portuguese cartoonist Fernando Relvas, East German cartoonist Lona Rietschel, Making It cartoonist Keith Robinson, Wallace voice actor Peter Sallis, Filipino artist Mauro ‘Malang’ Santos, Belgian cartoonist Pierre Seron, Monterey Herald newspaper comic strip artist Vecihi Sezen, Playboy freelancer Bill Shaffer, newspaper cartoonist Jim Shinn,  Day by Day comic artist Reverend Robert Shirley, Howard “Shoe” Shoemaker Jr., Ed “Ed Shimmy” Siemienkowicz, Disney ‘Imagineer’ Marty Sklar, Dan Spiegle, Marvel Comics’ Flo Steinberg, James Stevenson, Turkish cartoonist Galip Tekin, “Gene Catlow” webcartoonist Albert Temple, Canadian political cartoonist Merle Tingley, Japanese voice actor Hiromi Tsuru, comics podcaster Glenn Walker, *Beetle Bailey gag writer Morgan Walker, British comic artist John Watkiss, British cartoonist Alex Noel Watson, Len Wein, New Yorker cartoonist Ann McCarthy Weisman, TV’s Batman Adam West, Skip Williamson, Hong Kong’s Old Master Q creator Alfonso “Wang Ze” Wong (aka Wang Jia-xi), Larry Wright, Bernie Wrightson, Bob Young of Tim Tyler’s Luck, Belgian artist Pascal “Julius” Zanon, Cartoon Bank co-founder Sondra Zell, Jack Ziegler, Atlas-Seaboard collector Philip Zolli Jr. …