Word cannot express how I feel. Steve is my favourite comic book writer. Now he's gone.
This guy is ground zero for bizarre and psychologically mature comic books in the mainstream. All the Alan Moores and Neil Gaimans and Grant Morrisons of the world built on his foundation; Moore's storytelling construction is better, but in terms of character and dialogue and - most importantly - imagination, for my money there's no one better.
An excellent tribute is here. (Thanks, Morgue!)
Go and read his blog.
The Howard the Duck newspaper strip has never been officially reprinted, so in tribute I'm putting a pdf of most of it online. It's a bit big to upload to here so I'm registering at a free hosting service just to do this. Get it here.
If you've never read anything by him, I would highly recommend Nevada as a place to start. (Obviously go to your local comic shop first, but if they can't get you Nevada then the link will do. I've never had a better experience reading a comic month by month, and it was over too soon.)
Posted by pearce at February 12, 2008 7:36 PM