Legend PAUL RYAN Passes Away... God Rest His Soul

[YJ1]

http://www.newsarama.com/28273-paul-ryan-passes-away-at-66.html

Veteran comics artist and all around good guy Paul Ryan passed away this weekend according to his cousin, Chad Callanan.

After winning a talent search put on by Charlton Comics, the Massachusetts-born artist made his comic book debut with 1984's Star Masters #1, featuring his story "Breed." After serving as an artist assistant to Bob Layton while he worked on Marvel's Hercules. Less than a year into that however, Ryan began picking up work on his own from Marvel beginning with The Thing #27 and later helping launch Quasar and the New Universe title D.P. 7, which he co-created.

The artist's first major work, however, was illustrating the wedding of Peter Parker and Mary Jane Watson in Amazing Spider-Man Annual #21. After some fill-in work on various Avengers titles, Ryan began arguably his most notable work -- illustrating Fantastic Four from 1991 to 1996. During this time he also collaborated with Stan Lee on the creation of the Marvel 2099 character Ravage.

In 1996, Ryan jumped from Marvel to work at DC -- first on Superman: Man of Tomorrow, and then on The Flash. Ryan also took part in the drawing of Superman: The Wedding Album and Superman Red/Superman Blue.

Later in his career, Ryan returned to work at Marvel intermittently, as well as working for WildStorm and CrossGen.

This saddens me greatly. Loved his work. In fact, I'm looking at original artwork of his hanging on my wall as I type this. God rest his soul and bless his family.

He deserves a nod and a tribute here, on the Marvel page at the least.

 

[Kirk Langstrom]

http://www.newsarama.com/28273-paul-ryan-passes-away-at-66.html

Veteran comics artist and all around good guy Paul Ryan passed away this weekend according to his cousin, Chad Callanan.



This saddens me greatly. Loved his work. In fact, I'm looking at original artwork of his hanging on my wall as I type this. God rest his soul and bless his family.

He deserves a nod and a tribute here, on the Marvel page at the least.

Yes. His work on Fantastic Four was stellar. Rest in peace, Paul. Thanks for the great artwork.

 

[BoredGuy]

He was a phenomenal artist

it's just a damn shame that anyone who tries to google him will be bombarded by pictures of the Republican assclown who runs the US House

 

[Phaedrus45]

Oh man, that is sad. Met him about a year and a half ago. I had him sign quite a few comics I had; as, I find meeting these legendary artists and writers much more interesting than the ones who are hot right now. He was quite the talker, unlike me; but, I stood and listened to him tell me about meeting Stan Lee (because Stan was stood up for dinner and went with Paul and his wife) and how it all led into Paul doing Ravage 2009.