Animator and artist Larry Latham has died from the cancer he'd been fighting for some time. Larry worked for 30-some-odd years in the Hollywood animation industry, including stints at Disney, Universal, Hanna-Barbera, Marvel and Filmation. It was at H-B where I met him and hired him to do a few of the comic books we were doing then for Europe. He was very good and very professional and I was sorry to lose his services when he got other, better-paying work.
Larry did just about everything. He animated. He designed. He directed. He produced. He was very much involved with the Tail Spin series for Disney. Before any of that, he did some work in underground comix (most notably, Betty Boop Funnies) and after his time in L.A., he returned to his native Oklahoma and taught his craft at the Oklahoma State University Institute of Technology. He also did a popular webcomic called Lovecraft is Missing.
I liked the guy and his work. Near as I can tell, everyone did.