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Dick Giordano<\/strong><\/a> passed away today.\u00a0 He was considered a legend in the comic business having literally done it all over the course of his long career.\u00a0 Many learned of Mr. Giordano’s passing<\/strong> through an e-mail sent out by his good friend and fellow artist, Bob Layton<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 Here’s how Bob<\/strong> broke the news:<\/p>\n Dear Friends & Colleagues,<\/strong><\/p>\n It is my sorrowful duty to announce that legendary artist\/editor\/entrepreneur Dick Giordano passed away today.\u00a0 Few could ever hope to match what he accomplished in his chosen profession, or to excel while maintaining great humor, compassion for his peers and an unwavering love for the art form.\u00a0 His unique vision changed the comic industry forever and all of those who work in the business continue to share in the benefits of his sizable contributions.<\/p>\n I have been honored to call him a business partner, mentor and dear friend throughout the majority of my lifetime.\u00a0 We will not see his like again.<\/p>\n Regretfully,<\/p>\n Bob Layton<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n I’m honored to have met <\/strong>Dick Giordano<\/strong><\/a> several times over the years.\u00a0 He was always gracious and kind.\u00a0 As many of you probably know I have several Dick Giordano “Demolition Man”<\/strong> headsketches<\/strong><\/a> in my collection.\u00a0 Mr. Giordano<\/strong> did them in preparation for his work on the comic book adaptation of the movie.\u00a0 Last week, I received another headsketch drawn by Mr. Giordano<\/strong>.\u00a0 This sketch is Dick’s take<\/strong> on Sly<\/strong> as Jack Carter<\/strong>.\u00a0 It was gifted to me by my buddy Steve Lipsky<\/a><\/strong> [who also owns the sketch on today’s post].\u00a0 I plan to post the Jack Carter<\/strong> piece with tomorrow’s update.<\/p>\n My thoughts and prayers go out to Mr. Giordano’s family, friends and fans<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Bob Layton<\/strong> is right, we will not see the like of Dick Giordano<\/strong> again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dick Giordano passed away today.\u00a0 He was considered a legend in the comic business having literally done it all over<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[58,56,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-comics","category-rip"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4210","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=4210"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17955,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4210\/revisions\/17955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}