A Trio Of Comics-Related Persons That Passed Over The Holidays

* Mike Lynch notes the passing of Pennsylvania newspaper man William T. Keough at the age of 74. Keough was currently the editor of Gag Recap, a magazine aimed at gag cartoonists, and was the editor of a number of similar publications including Cartoon Opportunities. Gag Recap was a small (less than 15 pages a month), hand-crafted publication of over 50 years standing. Lynch notes that the publication may be for sale.

Keough was a Boston native He most recently made his home in Chalfont, Pennsylvania, directly north of Philadelphia. He worked on various Midwestern publications before moving east: first to Long Island, then to New Jersey, finally to Pennsylvania. He was for a time a prominent columnist in Philadelphia's long-running newspaper, the Philadelphia Bulletin. He started his own company after leaving the newspaper industry, and may have sidled into the cartoonist-related publications after a stint working for the vocational newsletter Andrews News Litigation Reports.

* The hobby business analysis and news site ICv2.com reported the death of comics retailer Carl Tupper on December 29th. Tupper and wife Linda founded Book Swap Incorporated in 1979; the comics part of the store soon became its focus and the establishment was named BSI Comics, where it served comics fans in Metairie, Lousiana, a community attached to New Orleans and only 10 minutes by car away from its downtown. He sold the store after Hurricane Katrin but apparently remained involved with its operation.

* a titan of the European writers-about-comics community, Yves Marie Labé died on December 31 at the relatively young age of 56. The cause of death was cardiac arrest. Ensconced at Le Monde in the arts section and able to turn that powerful spotlight on a range of creators and the continent's most important comics-related news stories for more than two decades, Labé was a co-founder and a past president of the model comics critics and journalists group l'Association des Critiques et journalistes de Bande Dessinée. A tribute including a cartoon from fellow Le Monde institution Plantu and a number of colleagues and those covered appeared in the January 7 edition of the publication. He was honored with a ceremony in Paris organized by ACBD that same day. Both articles I've read on Labé's passing made note of his flamboyant personality and general charisma in addition to his journalistic achievements. He had apparently suffered some health setbacks earlier in 2010 from which he was slowly recovering.
 
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