Day: January 4, 2005

Will Eisner died today. He’s a pretty legendary figure in the history of the comics. I would’ve met him a few years ago at a small press comics expo, but he got stuck in Florida, due to bad weather, and had to skip the show.

Also, Kelly Freas died on Sunday. He illustrated a ton of science fiction book and magazine covers, and was best known for the cover of a Queen album (that one with the big robot). I didn’t know Freas’ work that well, but he did paint a cover for my friend Paul’s book Strange Trades.

I would’ve written about some of the celebrity deaths that occurred between Christmas and New Year, but I would’ve made a really tasteless joke. So bad, even I knew it was tasteless.

It seems that Edge (definitely the best online magazine named after a shaving gel) has posted the results of its annual question to scientists and ‘science-minded thinkers’: “What do you believe is true even though you cannot prove it?”

The answers are pretty neat, though sometimes high-falutin’. I’m glad they didn’t pose the question to laymen like me, because I would’ve had to respond, “That the 1997 NBA Slam Dunk Contest was fixed.”