OTP: Uncanny Dave Cockrum HCs

A new edition of the book The Uncanny Dave Cockrum, a series of essays and devotional art designed to benefit the late artist and his family, is now available through Bud Plant in a signed and numbered and a deluxe edition. Because the book is a benefit, it's being released there first because the percentages of return to the family are greater on a book offered that way. It will be distributed through other DM channels in the Fall. I haven't seen the book, but I contributed an essay to the new edition.

Even if you're not interested in the kind of work the artist did, I think Dave Cockrum's passing is important for all comics fans to note because his was one of the first notable names of the fanzine generation to die of causes that weren't accidental or bizarrely out of the ordinary for a man of his age and health. The issues he dealt with, such as his significant contributions to various comic book company franchises that have benefited from those contributions via film and what that did and should mean for an artist, are issues with which the industry will be dealing for the next 15-25 years with increasing intensity.
 
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