June 26, 2012
All Thoughts And Prayers With Comics-Maker Roger Slifer
The longtime mainstream comics writer, editor and colorist Roger Slifer
is apparently in intensive care after being struck by a hit and run driver on Saturday morning in Santa Monica. He is in critical condition at UCLA's Ronald Reagan Medical Center. Slifer was reportedly hit by a white sedan.
Slifer is perhaps best known as a co-creator of the Lobo character, one of the rare post-1970s characters at DC Comics to actually generate wider media interest and drive publishing sales for the company.
Friends of Slifer are calling for widespread attention to the matter, including some sort of vaguely defined media and direct pressure to be put on a specific group of public officials such as the officers in charge and a civic official or two in an effort to help locate the perpetrator of the crime more quickly and/or any witnesses involved. As a one-time police reporter I'm not comfortable linking to or publishing phone numbers without knowing a lot more about the particulars. (I'm happy to run letters from anyone disagreeing with me or calling me names for not stepping up in this fashion.) I imagine you can certainly google Slifer's name and some combination of the facts above if you want to find an article with these kinds of opportunities to do something.
My thoughts and prayers are with Slifer, his family, his friends and all the folks working on his behalf; I hope his recovery and the wheels of justice both progress quickly and smoothly in his favor.
posted 11:00 am PST |
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