A Slightly Belated RIP for Alex Toth

Cafe Society
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Sadly, the comics world lost one of the really good ones on May 27 with the death of Alex Toth. He was probably better known for his animation work with Hanna-Barbera, which included Space Ghost and Jonny Quest. However, that came after his time in comics, which included stints at Marvel and DC as well as EC, where his contributions included the excellent “F-86 Sabre Jet!” and “Thunder Jet!” in different issues of Frontline Combat. Toth had the reputation of being an “artist’s artist,” AIUI.

Coincidentally, Toth died two days before Jack Kamen’s 80th birthday.

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I read that he died at his drawing table. It is sad, but when a person dies doing what they love…well, we should all be so lucky.

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Scott Tipton over at Comics 101 has a nice chronological review of Toth’s work.

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Nuts. I had missed this news.

–Cliffy

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A candle smiley would be nice.

Toth was one of the greats.

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Maybe I missed it but I can’t believe Adult Swim wouldn’t have done a ‘bumper’ tribute to him. Space Ghost is what started all of AS, plus he’s also the original designer of Sealab 2020…

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you missed it.

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Figured. Blame it on the TiVo FF button…