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KELLY FREAS NOTIFICATION...
Spider Robinson is announcing on alt.callahans that the legendary SF artist and illustrator Frank Kelly Freas is not expected to survive the night. Robinson is a longtime friend of the Freas family, and if anyone should be in the know - it is he. Freas' art always evoked a thrilling delight at the vast wonder of the Science Fiction universe and the 'people' in it. His respected and prodigious SF and Fantasy covers made me pick up and enjoy more than one book that I might otherwise have passed on ( especially in the largely unlamented but bizarrely collectible series of LASER books out of Canada in the 70's & '80's )...because you knew that if it was a Freas cover that what you were seeing, that the mood it was evoking was likely to be found in the story as well. Freas leaves behind a tremendous body of work...much of it forever tied in the minds of readers to the books he graced with his illustrative genius. He was also the creator of that seminal 'What, me worry?' character that peered out of a thousand MAD magazine covers - Alfred E. Neuman. It's an immortality, in a way. I'll miss the man and all the new art he might have made given the time! :-( Why does genuine talent have to be tied to these ephemeral bodies of ours? Hugh Hefner ( when discussing the untimely death of Dorothy Straton ) was once quoted as saying: 'The most unfair thing in life is mortality, and the only thing that makes it bearable is the certain knowledge that the suffrage is universal.' Guess that sums it up. -- |
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On Mon, 03 Jan 2005 05:04:14 GMT, Gnome de Plume
wrote: Kelly died Sunday morning at just before 5am. I knew him for 30 years and a bit, and will never know anyone else like him. We've lost a giant. |
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michael adams wrote:
"Gnome de Plume" wrote in message ... Why does genuine talent have to be tied to these ephemeral bodies of ours? Hugh Hefner ( when discussing the untimely death of Dorothy Straton ) was once quoted as saying: 'The most unfair thing in life is mortality, and the only thing that makes it bearable is the certain knowledge that the suffrage is universal.' Guess that sums it up. The term "suffrage", as in "universal suffrage", refers to the right to vote. From the Latin root - suffrigium. Perhaps Mr Hefner should stick to what he knows best. Guess that sums it up. michael adams ... -- Not Hef's fault...mine, and my crappy spell checker. And if you don't believe the man is a pretty fair philosopher then you simply have never read or understood his political and sociological writings. :-p -- Not a replacement for genuine human interaction. |
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