From the above source —
See as well the author Les Daniels in this journal.
Friday, November 16, 2018
William Goldman
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Wednesday, December 7, 2011
And for Saint Les Daniels*…
This evening's previous post honored a Jewish saint whose feast day is September 22nd.
Non-Jews may prefer to honor on that date St. Thomas of Villanueva.
* The late author of
"five novels featuring the vampire Don Sebastian de Villanueva, a cynical, amoral and misanthropic Spanish nobleman whose predatory appetites pale into insignificance compared with the historical catastrophes which he witnesses in his periodic reincarnations." — Wikipedia
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Thursday, November 24, 2011
Shine On
"I need a photo-opportunity,
I want a shot at redemption.
Don't want to end up a cartoon
In a cartoon graveyard." — Rhymin' Simon
See also Uncertainty and More Uncertainty.
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Tuesday, November 15, 2011
More Uncertainty*
From this morning's online New York Times—
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Les Daniels, Historian of Comic Books, Dies at 68 By DENNIS HEVESI Published: November 14, 2011 Les Daniels, one of the earliest historians of comic books— from the launching (off the doomed planet Krypton) of Superman in 1938 through the countercultural comix movement of the ’60s— and an author of horror novels, died on Nov. 5 at his home in Providence, R.I. He was 68. The cause was a heart attack, said Diane Manning, his sister and only immediate survivor. … |
The version at The Comics Reporter may or may not be more accurate—
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Leslie Noel Daniels III, 1943-2011 Posted 7:00 AM PST Nov. 14, 2011 — (Unsigned, apparently by Tom Spurgeon.) The writer Les Daniels died at an unknown moment before November 4 in his Providence apartment, local media sources have reported. Daniels' body was identified by his friend, the illustrator Steve Gervais, on that day, who told the Providence Journal that it looked like Daniels had been dead a couple of days by the time he saw the body. The police had been called after other acquaintances worried that the they had not been in contact with the writer for an extended period of time. Daniels was a diabetic waiting to receive surgery for a heart-valve replacement. No autopsy was requested. Daniels was 68 years old. … |
* The title refers to yesterday's post Uncertainty.
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