Steve Lightle, RIP

[Earth 2 Chris]

One of my favorite artists who was sadly underrated has passed from cardiac arrest at the very young age of 61.

https://www.cbr.com/steve-lightle-legion-of-super-heroes-artist-obituary/

I wish Lightle had drawn more interior work, but his covers were nothing short of magnificent. My condolences to his family, friends and fans.





Chris

[Blue Meanie]

I am friends with Steve on facebook and I just read about this on Steve's facebook page. I am absolutely STUNNED by this. He was fine the other day. I know his wife Marianne had just had surgery a few weeks ago and she had gotten through the surgery ok. Just at a loss for words. If there is anything as far as a Go Fund Me page to help out please let me know Chris. If I find out anything I will post here with information. RIP Steve.

[Mr.Marion]

Man it seems like artists popular in the 90's are dying now . I mostly collect early bronze age, pretty soon all those greats will no longer be around to share their stories with the fans.

[Blue Meanie]

When DC tried to revive the Doom Patrol for the 3rd time, before the Vertigo imprint.

[MRP]

I think my favorite Lightle work was the Red Sonja one-shot he did for Cross Plains Comics, a short-lived company that was trying to revive Howard in comics between Marvel and Dark Horse's tenures.



Aside from her introduction by Barry Smith, this is my favorite rendition of Sonja.

-M