mike wieringo

[envertigo]

i found out about this right after getting to work this morning after wizard world chicago. did a surprising job of not crying in front of my co-workers. and was able to make it until i got home just now and read up on everyone's comments about how amazing he was

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[blogtard]

Damn.

Obviously, I never knew the man, but I was a huge fan of his Spiderman work, and there was a lot of fun in it. I was really excited when I found out that he had an LJ.

Well...shit. That's all I got.

[poisonelf]

Yeah, I caught this from some Deviant Art journals and then raced over to Newsarama.
I'd never met the guy, but I've been following his work for a while now.

Completely floored me when I read about it.
He died so young and so inexplicably.
It's really hard to think about it.

[trollbabe]

I never knew it was him, but I loved the Impulse character, and loved his art style.

I'm so sorry, sweetie.

[amanofhats]

Scott Kurtz' eulogy broke me. If you haven't read it, and you're up for it, it's on the main page of www.pvponline.com.

[envertigo]

...yeah. that's what did it for me.

[jeff_preston]

Bad idea to read it at work. Yeah, so I'm at The Evil Empire of CMG, and crying at my desk.
FUCK

[amanofhats]

Indeed. I was just sitting at home reading it and I couldn't fight back the tears.

[crazy_elf_girl]

I read it online yesterday morning and just started crying. A few minutes later when Josh called to answer my question about hours at the store I told him what had happened and barely kept the tears in.

It's not often so many people hear of a famous person's death and cry. Most think "Wow...that really sucks, my sympathies to the family". I guess it shows that Mike Wieringo was clearly an amazing person.