RIP Steve Gerber
You’re going to be seeing many many posts on comics websites over the next few days about Steve Gerber, and you should read them all. Just from my vague awareness of comics history, as both an industry and an art form, Gerber is a towering figure, without whom so much of what we take for granted today would not exist.
I must confess absolute ignorance when it comes to Gerber’s work, however. I own some of it, but have read precious little of it. As luck would have it, I actually just started reading his nineties miniseries Nevada the other day.
However, the fact that I don’t know Gerber’s work doesn’t mean that I can’t know Gerber’s work, and here on HeavyInk, you’ll find two of his most highly-regarded creations available in convenient collected form. I ordered them myself a few minutes ago.
(Hey, if you put in just “Gerber,” looks like Nevada also shows up.)
Both have recently returned to the stands in Marvel miniseries.
Gerber was also the writer on DC’s latest relaunch of Doctor Fate, in the pages of Countdown to Mystery; I’m waiting on the trade, but I’ve heard nothing but good things.
Rest in peace, Steve.
Yeah, I picked up an issue of Howard the Duck – Master of Quack Fu (#3, I think) when I was a wee lad in the 70s. It was cool, but the only one I ever got. I did really like the Defenders, and had maybe 50 or 100 of those at one point (only 3 or 4 of them today, alas), and I’m thinking he probably wrote those. Now that I’m thinking about how much I liked them, I’ll probably have to order them.
Anyway, what a wretched way to go (pulminary fibrosis).