{"id":30045,"date":"2022-06-17T09:13:43","date_gmt":"2022-06-17T13:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=30045"},"modified":"2022-06-17T09:13:43","modified_gmt":"2022-06-17T13:13:43","slug":"rip-tim-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=30045","title":{"rendered":"RIP: Tim Sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z061722rip_timsale.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"612\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tim Sale died yesterday at the age of 66.\u00a0 No cause of death was given.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tim Sale is best known for his collaborations with writer Jeph Loeb.\u00a0 A few of the series that they created for DC include: <em>Batman: The Long Halloween, Batman: Dark Victory, Superman for All Seasons<\/em> and <em>Catwoman: When in Rome<\/em>.\u00a0 For Marvel Comics, the duo created <em>Daredevil: Yellow, Spider-Man: Blue, Hulk: Gray<\/em> and <em>Captain America: White<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr. Sale is also known for his work with Darwyn Cooke on <em>Superman: Confidential, Grendel<\/em> with Matt Wagner and <em>Deathblow<\/em> with Jim Lee.\u00a0 Any comic that Tim Sale worked on was worth picking up because of Sale&#8217;s unique spin on characters.\u00a0 Tim Sale won an <em>Eisner Award<\/em> in 1999 in the <em>&#8220;Best Artist\/Penciller\/Inker&#8221;<\/em> category.\u00a0 Tim Sale also provided art for the television series <em>Heroes<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I was fortunate to meet Tim Sale a few times at conventions over the years.\u00a0 In 2011, Tim Sale did a wonderful sketch for me at MegaCon. Tim said that he wanted to do Rocky from the first movie.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comicartfans.com\/gallerypiece.asp?piece=993996\">He chose to draw Rocky<\/a> the loan collector who worked for his friend Gazzo.\u00a0 Tim Sale also added his turtles Cuff and Link. My buddy, John Higashi was responsible for making it happen.\u00a0 Thanks to John Higashi, I also attended a dinner with Tim Sale and other artists.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tim Sale was an amazing artist.\u00a0 By all accounts he was a kind and gracious man.\u00a0 The number of news organizations reporting his passing and remembrances from people around the world is testimony to his impact.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Our thoughts and prayers go out to Tim Sale&#8217;s family, friends and fans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Sale died yesterday at the age of 66.\u00a0 No cause of death was given. Tim Sale is best known<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,52,17,56,57,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-celebs","category-comics","category-rip","category-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30045"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30046,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30045\/revisions\/30046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}