Roger Armstrong passed away |
Roger Joseph Armstrong (1917-2007). At 8.00 PM on June 7th, 2007, Roger Armstrong passed away due to a heart attack. Roger had suffered a previous attack in 2005, but had since recovered. Anyway... Another one of the greats is gone. I corresponded with Roger for years, and earlier this year, thanks to friend Didier Ghez, I finally managed to have his biography published in "Walt's People" #4. I sent Roger a copy and he was very happy about it. Roger was a versatile artist who worked in animation, comics, illustration, and taught painting until his very last days on Earth (hope he'll be teaching up in Heaven now...). Disney-wise, he worked on the Scamp daily strip for ten years (1978-88), but mainly drew (and sometimes wrote as well) comic-book stories from 1942-78, starring Little Minnehaha, The Li'l Bad Wolf, The Seven Dwarfs, Super Goof, The Beagle Boys, and others yet. He also worked on Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, Sniffles and Mary Jane, The Lucy Show, H.R. Pufnstuf, The Funky Phantom, The Flintstones - - you name them. He wrote and drew the Bugs Bunny Sunday page in 1943-44, and drew it again in 1978-79. He also wrote and drew Ella Cinders, Napoleon and Uncle Elby, Little Lulu and The Flintstones for newspapers. Roger certainly deserves a place in the Comics Hall of Fame. He was a great man and a multi-talented artist. He will be sorely missed.
Articolo di afnews (se non altrimenti indicato) - Martedì, 19/6/2007
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