Não é segredo para ninguém que um dos meus autores favoritos de BD é o Mike Wieringo. Sempre foi extremamente simpático online e cheguei a considerar convidá-lo para uma das futuras feiras do Livro no Funchal (até chegamos a falar disso!) – o seu estilo simples e diferente do “mainstream” na BD americana foi uma grande influência, e, de certa forma, foi ele quem influenciou a criação deste blog, pois foi do seu site que tirei a ideia de um blog onde pudesse colocar desenhos regularmente, tal como disse na altura da criação deste blog.
É estranho. O Mike era novo (tinha 44 anos) – ainda um par de dias atrás tinha acabado de ler o último número da mini-série “Spider-Man / Fantastic Four”, tinhamos falado da feira do livro e no seu blog, o post de sexta-feira, era “business as usual” (e passo a citar do seu blog, na sexta-feira, 10 de Agosto, a falar de electricistas, mudanças da cablagem lá em casa e as alegrias de ser o proprietário da casa onde se vive):
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I had to keep the sketch pretty quick today if I was going to get it done and posted at all. I spent the morning with an electrical contractor here at the house. I’ve been having trouble with my heating and air conditioning unit switching its breaker off during the height of the heat of the day the past few afternoons (and for those of you in the southeast dealing with these 100-plus degree days, you know just how sweltering and oppressive this week has been). As it turns out, my entire wiring setup outside is horribly old and doesn’t meet code. It also contains quite a bit of aluminum wiring– which the contractor tells me is very dangerous and not in use anymore. So I got the great news that it’s going to cost me thousands of dollars to bring everything back up to code…. and not have the danger of causing a fire at any point as well. Ah, the joys of being a homeowner….!
I’ve had several folks inquire about my 2007 sketchbook and whether it would be for sale here on the site. Steven Gettis has set up a store link in the PERSONAL section of the column at the right for selling the sketchbook and prints I’ve produced. So anyone interested in the things offered there, I’ve got a PayPal account set up to handle the sales that way.
OK… have a great weekend, everyone.
This is Entry 412.
Mike
This entry was posted on Friday, August 10th, 2007 at 1:22 pm and is filed under Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
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“OK… have a great weekend, everyone.”
De repente, na segunda-feira – no seu blog, uma mensagem do seu irmão a dizer que Mike Wieringo tinha falecido. Assim. De repente.
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As Mike himself would say, “just a quick one for now.”
Our family is, I’m sure you’ll understand, in shock. By now, the word has spread that Mike passed away Sunday night of apparent heart failure. That’s all we know for now. When we hear more, I’ll share it here. I’ll also post any news of a memorial service here once we figure out just what we’re going to do. We tried to notify all Mike’s closest friends before word got out. Unfortunately, news travels fast and I’m afraid some of you, despite our best efforts, found out the hard way. My apologies.
On behalf of our family, I’d like to thank everyone for the tremendous outpouring of support and sympathy. It means a lot, particularly to our Mom and Dad. Mike had so many friends and admirers, a fact I had to continually remind him of. He was so humble and unsure of himself. I think it would really surprise him to hear all the love being expressed here and elsewhere. I haven’t had the time or the heart to read everything posted but I plan to. So I ask that everyone share their favorite Mike story. It will help us through this trying time and you would have our gratitude.
Though we haven’t ironed out the details of how we plan to honor Mike, I’d like to suggest that, in lieu of cards or flowers, anyone who is so inclined please donate to the ASPCA or the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund in his name. I have a feeling Mike would like that.
Take care,
Matt
This entry was posted on Monday, August 13th, 2007 at 1:39 pm and is filed under Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
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Ainda estou um pouco espantado com isto (e o ambiente histérico no escritório também não ajuda muito…)