The cartoon business recently lost two talented gents who died way too young…
One was Boyd Kirkland, who was an animation director, producer and storyboard artist. He was probably best known for X-Men: Evolution and the Batman animated series and the quality of those shows (and therefore, the skills of Boyd) are obvious to all.
The other was John Dorman, who was a designer, art director and storyboard artist for just about every studio in Hollywood at one time or another. I knew him when he supervised art design at Ruby-Spears and he was very, very good at what he did there.
Though I worked briefly with both men, I don't feel qualified to write the kind of obits they deserve. So I'll just say they were good, creative professionals whose work will be rerun forever. I liked them both and was very sorry to get the two sad phone calls.