{"id":968,"date":"2006-05-28T05:33:03","date_gmt":"2006-05-28T10:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/memoriam\/"},"modified":"2006-05-28T16:40:04","modified_gmt":"2006-05-28T21:40:04","slug":"memoriam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/memoriam","title":{"rendered":"Memoriam"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alex Toth<\/a>, one of the great comic artists, died yesterday at 78<\/a>. He was at his drawing table.<\/p>\n

Ironhead Hayward also died,<\/a> after a long battle with a brain tumor. He was 39.<\/p>\n

(Tom Spurgeon at The Comics Reporter has much more on Toth and his stature in the comics field<\/a>.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alex Toth, one of the great comic artists, died yesterday at 78. He was at his drawing table. Ironhead Hayward also died, after a long battle with a brain tumor. He was 39. (Tom Spurgeon at The Comics Reporter has much more on Toth and his stature in the comics field.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s4C7K-memoriam","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16688,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/bonus-episode-dean-haspiel","url_meta":{"origin":968,"position":0},"title":"Bonus Episode – Dean Haspiel","author":"Gil","date":"March 17, 2024","format":"audio","excerpt":"Virtual Memories Show Bonus Episode: Dean Haspiel \"What if Spider-Man became Peter Parker?\" LEAN INTO DEAN! 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