Ma serie prefere de lui est une de ses dernieres.. Carnage avec Mike Perkins
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Très bon, oui.
Au revoir et merci, monsieur Conway.
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Jerome K. Moore sur son compte LinkedIn, le 28 avril 2026 :
• IN MEMORIAM -
As a young comics fan, my favorite superhero was The Amazing Spider-Man. So, it follows that in that era, now deemed « classic, » it was Gerry Conway who wrote most of the issues I read, fascinating me with so many pivotal adventures featuring one of the most beloved pop cultural characters ever created. Gerry wrote many other comic book properties which I enjoyed, including his run on ATARI FORCE, illustrated initially by the legendary Jose Luis García-López.
As an 18 year-old kid eagerly breaking into the industry as a professional at DC Comics, Gerry Conway was among my most pivotal guides, and one of my biggest boosters. He was very kind to me the day I met him at the offices when the publisher was headquartered at 75 Rockefeller Plaza. As writer/editor, it was Gerry who was responsible for my very first full-length penciling assignment, filling in for the great Pat Broderick on two issues (numbers 8 and 9) of THE FURY OF FIRESTORM, THE NUCLEAR MAN. His history with Spider-Man added to my excitement over the assignment, but I had mixed feelings over the way Gerry introduced me in the credits box, and the mention he gave me in the issue’s letters column. While I was certainly flattered by his confidence in me, I was intimidated by the added pressure. Of course, he could relate to this himself since he also began his professional comics career as a teenager. But he dealt with that pressure far better than I did. Still, Gerry was demonstrating his faith in me. He believed I was good enough to do the job, despite it being the first time I would be working « Marvel style » from a plot breakdown instead of a full script. He knew I could do it, and because he knew it, I was able to do it. All too often, it’s the encouragement from others that is at the heart of our most notable achievements.
I was crushed to hear of Gerry’s passing today. Naturally, we are losing many giants of pop culture these days, and while this is to be expected, the pain is no less keenly felt.
Thank you, Gerry Conway, for your grace, your kindness, and for the unique gift of your amazing creative talents. Most of all, thank you for believing in me more than I ever have.
Rest in peace, my friend.And once again, we are diminished.
Jim
Gail Simone :
I have just been told that legendary writer Gerry Conway has passed.
This is a hard day.
I was a lifelong fan, the characters he created, the stories he told, have been such a part of my love of comics (and this career I adore) at a molecular level.
A couple months ago, he sent a letter to a lot of us, that he was in his last days, and the end of his life due to pancreatic cancer.
He was gracious and straightforward. It was hard to hear, he’s one of those creators whose work meant so much to me that I have a hard time quantifying it properly.
I did two tributes to him recently in my comics, and it was a bit of a race, my hope that he would get to see them and perhaps enjoy them a little bit, before he passed. Just to know that his creations live on, and people are still walking in his shadow.
His good friend Timmy Heague connected us a bit better, and I got to tell him a little bit about how much his work had meant to me. I believe we were past the point of hoping for a miracle recovery, that was just not in the cards.
I told him of the Punisher/Power Girl story, both of which he co-created, and he asked if it was possible to see the script, which I got permission to do, and then the art by the wonderful Belén Ortega. He was gracious and very happy, he praised her wonderful art and the sense of fun in the story.
I told him also that I had taken a one-time character he had in a very obscure book, a Werewolf By Night story, and turned her into the main villain in an Uncanny X-Men, and again, he was gracious and generous and just every bit the writer you hoped he would be.
We passed a few more letters back and forth. I am still in that stage where when someone like George Perez, Jenny Isabella, or Dwayne McDuffie, or Steve Gerber, or Marv Wolfman, or Gerry Conway even knows my NAME, I find it astounding, but to have them all be so kind and so generous, it just feels like I chose my heroes welll.
It’s a sad day. But I am glad he and Timmy reached out, and I feel incredibly fortunate to have had this brief but beautiful exchange.
I hope I can talk a bit more about Gerry but right now, my heart is a little too heavy.
Thank you for everything, Gerry Conway.
Où j’apprends que Tony Isabella a fait son coming-out trans.
Ça date de 2024, mais je n’avais pas vu passer l’info.
Je trouve déjà ça courageux en général, mais se lancer dans une telle aventure, humaine mais aussi sociale, à soixante-dix ans passés, c’est quelque chose.
Jim
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Sic transit gloria mundi
Pas mal.
Jim
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Paul Levitz
A few months back, we got an email with a clip of Groucho saying, « Hello, I must be going… » so it wasn’t a shock when I heard that Gerry Conway passed today. But it was a wave of sadness. We’d spoken a couple of times since, and were hoping to get together at San Diego to celebrate his induction into the Hall of Fame, but we both knew it might not to be.
Gerry led an extraordinary creative life, with modesty and courage. No nepo baby, he published his first novel at 16, in an era before self-publishing or easy access to the bookstore shelves. A comics writer at 17, a major writer at 20, an editor at 22 (probably the youngest since Stan Lee)…and the accomplishments roll on.
He created the Punisher, the first female Captain Marvel, and killed Gwen Stacey when writing a major life change in a key supporting character was pretty much unheard of.
He was a principal in the creation of the Narrative Art Alliance, the first comic book not for profit created by the creative community. It didn’t survive long or accomplish anything, but the courage to try counts.
He encouraged and taught many of us, myself included. (Details later this week.)
In a generation of comics writers who aspired to move to Hollywood when the comics credential was a lead weight, he was the outstanding success: two movies made from scripts he and Roy Thomas wrote, others sold, and then a massive tv career.
Gerry said, « I write better in other writers’ voices, » referring to his success writing in the Marvel tonality that Stan had introduced, and then his many scripts for Dick Wolf’s tv series. I can’t speak for the tv work, since so much of that is done collaboratively, but his Marvel work definitely was a distinctive evolution from its predecessors.
I’ll write more this week, but just skimming the posts, you can see he made a positive difference in many people’s lives by his actions, and in literally millions of lives by the joy his writing brought to them. For a life lost too young, it’s a very impressive tally. And he fought his personal struggle with cancer through massive surgeries, hospitalizations, and burdens with dignity that set a good example.
My sympathies to his wife Laura,his children, and everyone who loved him or his work. My professional life wouldn’t have been the same without his actions, and the list of others who could say the same is a pretty solid one.
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Len Strazewski nous a quittés à l’âge de 71 ans. S’il n’était pas le plus connu des créateurs de comics (également journaliste et professeur, sa carrière s’étend principalement de 1989 à 1996), il fut le co-créateur de Jesse Quick pour DC et Prime pour Malibu. Parmi les séries qu’il a écrites, il y a notamment Starman, Justice Society of America, Prime et Prototype.
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Walt Simonson : " One last post for Gerry…
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I posted this in 2019. And below is my original caption for it.
Ben Grimm, Gerry Conway, and me - three old pals hanging out at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, PA. (Photo by Louise Simonson)."
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Mais visiblement Deniss O’Neil ne se souvient pas de Spidey et DD 
C est la vieillesse
Et Iron Man.
Faut dire aussi que cette histoire est parue chez DC, au delà même du caractère somme toute « anecdotique » de son run sur ASM (excepté les deux annuals illustrés par Frank Miller, et les indéniables apports que constituent les débuts de Madame Web & Hydro-Man) et inégal de son run sur DD (dès que Mazzucchelli n’est pas là et que Daredevil affronte un Kraven du pauvre).
Mais quand il est là, c est le pire meilleur vautour de tous les temps qu affronte dd
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