On his blog today, Eisner, Harvey and Shuster award winning artist and writer Darwyn Cooke's wife Marsha announced that he is receiving palliative care after combating an aggressive form of cancer.
Palliative care is essentially comfort and pain management care given to someone with a terminal illness.
Perhaps best known for his work "DC: The New Frontier", Cooke also adapted many of Richard Stark's "Parker" novels into graphic form. He worked in animation, contributing to both the Superman and Batman Animated Series. He produced the first six issues of DC Comics 2007 relaunch of Will Eisner's classic "The Spirit". His work on the Before Watchmen comics "Minutemen" and "Silk Spectre" in 2012 are regarded by some as the best comics that project issued. He provided 23 variant covers for DC Universe comics in December 2014. Most recently he was working with "Love and Rockets" creator Gilbert Hernandez on the Vertigo title "The Twilight Children"
Cooke has a cartoony style of drawing that I find appealing. His work is very reminiscent of the late artist Mike Parobeck. It will be a shame to lose this great talent as well.
http://darwyncooke.blogspot.com/
Palliative care is essentially comfort and pain management care given to someone with a terminal illness.
Perhaps best known for his work "DC: The New Frontier", Cooke also adapted many of Richard Stark's "Parker" novels into graphic form. He worked in animation, contributing to both the Superman and Batman Animated Series. He produced the first six issues of DC Comics 2007 relaunch of Will Eisner's classic "The Spirit". His work on the Before Watchmen comics "Minutemen" and "Silk Spectre" in 2012 are regarded by some as the best comics that project issued. He provided 23 variant covers for DC Universe comics in December 2014. Most recently he was working with "Love and Rockets" creator Gilbert Hernandez on the Vertigo title "The Twilight Children"
Cooke has a cartoony style of drawing that I find appealing. His work is very reminiscent of the late artist Mike Parobeck. It will be a shame to lose this great talent as well.
http://darwyncooke.blogspot.com/
