One of the founding members of Comic Book Fandom, Richard Kyle, died today following a long illness. Richard was often credited with coining the term "graphic story" to describe comic books that aspired to tell longer and more personal stories and for a time, he published a magazine called Graphic Story World and operated a bookstore in Long Beach, California called (what else?) the Graphic Story Bookstore.
He was a friend of mine and a friend of comics and I don't have the time right this minute to write a proper piece about him here. I'll try to do it later tonight or tomorrow morning.