Another one. John Tebbel was a clever, nice man I met when he and his wife Martha Thomases were publishing Comedy, a magazine about a subject near and dear to us all. It should have lasted a lot longer than it did…and might have, had they not made the apparently-fatal mistake of having me contribute to it. But I got two friends out of the project and later when Martha went to work at DC Comics, the three of us would sometimes lunch together.
John was actually a good person to do a magazine called Comedy because he was terribly knowledgeable and passionate about great makers of comedy. I suspect he was terribly knowledgeable about everything and passionate about a great many topics. I wish he was still around so we could delve into more of them.
My condolences to Martha. Heidi MacDonald has more.