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The Daily LITG, 17th May 2019 – Happy Birthday Garry Leach

Published Fri, 17 May 2019 05:08:32 -0500

Last updated Fri, 17 May 2019 05:08:52 -0500

Welcome to the mostly-daily Lying In The Gutters (and apologies for its abduction for the last couple of days, life got in the way. You can sign up to receive it as an e-mail here.

Happening today:

Queers & Comics Conference, School of Visual Arts, New York until tomorrow.
14th Annual Glyph Comics Award, The African American Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 6:30–9pm,
East Coast Comicon – Secaucus, New Jersey until Sunday.
Keycon – Winnipeg, Canada until Sunday.
Motor City Comic Con – Novi, Michigan until Sunday.
Nickel City Con – Buffalo, New York until Sunday.
Otafest – Calgary, Alabama until Sunday.
Puerto Rico Comic Con, Centro de Convenciones, San Juan, Puerto Rico until Sunday.

And a happy birthday to:

The Daily LITG, 17th May 2019 – Happy Birthday Garry Leach — Photo by Steve Cook

Garry Leach, creator of Warpsmiths, artist on Miracleman.
Steve Geiger, Hulk and Spider-Man artist, creator of The Evilgeiger Empire
Dave Sim, creator of Cerebus, publisher of Aardvark-Vanaheim.
Chris Ecker, first employee of Moondog Comics, co-founder of NOW Comics, co-creator of Big Bang Comics.
Dr Malcolm Bourne, comic book letter writer and journalist
Pete Fitzgerald, comic artist on Cracked.
Jennifer M. Contino, comics journalist
Huwj Matsumura, comic creator
Marko Stojanovic, Balkan comics writer
Luigi Mutti, comics translator
Josh Elder, Former associate editor at Wizard Magazine, creator of comic strip Mail Order Ninja.