He and I vacationed together to Comic-Con many times, or in Seattle or my hometown of Los Angeles. He was perfectly happy in his comfortable home in a Seattle suburb, surrounded by the things he loved, doing the work he loved and communicating with those he loved. Howard, and film noir, just for starters. He also loved comics, of course, and fanzines, rock music, the James Bond books and movies, Robert E. Writing was his passion, although not his only one. He was relatively pleased with his later works, particularly the Kurtzman and Warren books he did for Fantagraphics. He was always interested in becoming a better writer, right to the end. So, it was a small leap to his initial “real” books on comics and their creators. We bonded immediately and that began a near-20 year relationship that was closer to brothers than pals.Įven then, Bill was chronicling comics history in his CAPA-alpha fanzines, and then later in self-published books about comics fandom and its creators. We reconnected in the early ’90s when he joined the CAPA-alpha amateur press alliance and then solidified our friendship at San Diego Comic-Con in 1991, where we met for the first time. In a way, Bill and I have been friends for more than 50 years, since we both contributed to the same fanzines way back in the mid-1960s.
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