Neil Gaiman writes to alert me to the passing of Maurice Dodd, who wrote The Perishers, a long-running and popular comic strip that appears in The Daily Mirror over in the United Kingdom. I have to admit I only had a passing familiarity with the feature but you could tell it was much loved, not only as a good read but as a treasured part of many childhoods. Here's a link to an obit and a link to the Perishers website where you (like me) can learn more about it.