Obits and tributes pour in for our friend Shel Dorf — and by "our friend," I mean he was a friend to everyone who ever cared about comic books or strips, whether they knew him or not. The San Diego Union-Tribune has a good obituary and others I know are coming. The Comic-Con website has a particularly meaningful proclamation…
Shel Dorf's love for comic books and their creators had no equal. It was his appreciation of this art form and his keen foresight that helped to create what it Comic-Con.
It is with a heavy heart that we — the Board of Directors, Committee, Staff and Volunteers of Comic-Con — mourn the passing of our dear friend.
And while I was typing the above, I was interrupted by a phone call from the Los Angeles Times, which is prepping an obit and needed info. (It's been a busy day here in the Supplying Obit Info division. I spoke to them this morning about Carl Ballantine.)
Shel's funeral was this afternoon. I had to take my mother to a doctor's appointment so I was unable to get down there for it. If I'd been there, I would have said all the same things everyone else is saying…because they're all true.