Comments on: RIP Phil Gascoine http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/08/17/rip-phil-gascoine/ The News Blog of Comics Culture Sun, 07 Sep 2008 20:30:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: doug & patty clark http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/08/17/rip-phil-gascoine/#comment-380050 Tue, 04 Sep 2007 01:44:18 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/08/17/rip-phil-gascoine/#comment-380050 We met Phil & Vera on a couple of their trips to the United States and were impressed with their down to earth humor and ability to make you feel like their friends after having just met them.We had a great time with them just last summer at a 50th wedding anniversary party for Ruth & Gonah Schreckengast,in California.Needless to say,we were shocked and saddened to hear of Phil's passing....we will always remember him with a smile on our face for the sense of humor he always displayed. He will be missed...patty,doug and billie We met Phil & Vera on a couple of their trips to the United States and were impressed with their down to earth humor and ability to make you feel like their friends after having just met them.We had a great time with them just last summer at a 50th wedding anniversary party for Ruth & Gonah Schreckengast,in California.Needless to say,we were shocked and saddened to hear of Phil’s passing….we will always remember him with a smile on our face for the sense of humor he always displayed.
He will be missed…patty,doug and billie

]]> by: Richard Starkings http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/08/17/rip-phil-gascoine/#comment-346196 Mon, 20 Aug 2007 14:14:44 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/08/17/rip-phil-gascoine/#comment-346196 I can't remember ever meeting Phil, but as an editor at Marvel UK I knew him as an artist that was always there for you when he had time in his schedule and would never miss a deadline -- or baulk at art corrections when Columbia Pictures cracked the whip on likenesses in GHOSTBUSTERS. When we were preparing the soon-to-be-aborted ZOIDS monthly title with Grant Morrison and Steve Yeowell back in the Bayswater days of Marvel UK, we farmed out a couple of Grant's last two or three weekly strips to other available artists, including Phil. The work he turned in was just beautiful, not as sleek and sexy as Yeowell's but it had a texture and depth to it that made me wonder if we'd picked the right artist for the monthly after all. Michele, my brother in law died of the same illness as Phil just a couple of years ago, so I know how hard this last few months must have been on you and the rest of Phil's loved ones, and my thoughts and sympathy go out to you. Rich! I can’t remember ever meeting Phil, but as an editor at Marvel UK I knew him as an artist that was always there for you when he had time in his schedule and would never miss a deadline — or baulk at art corrections when Columbia Pictures cracked the whip on likenesses in GHOSTBUSTERS. When we were preparing the soon-to-be-aborted ZOIDS monthly title with Grant Morrison and Steve Yeowell back in the Bayswater days of Marvel UK, we farmed out a couple of Grant’s last two or three weekly strips to other available artists, including Phil. The work he turned in was just beautiful, not as sleek and sexy as Yeowell’s but it had a texture and depth to it that made me wonder if we’d picked the right artist for the monthly after all.

Michele, my brother in law died of the same illness as Phil just a couple of years ago, so I know how hard this last few months must have been on you and the rest of Phil’s loved ones, and my thoughts and sympathy go out to you.

Rich!

]]> by: MICHELE GASCOINE http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/08/17/rip-phil-gascoine/#comment-344027 Sun, 19 Aug 2007 15:37:42 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/08/17/rip-phil-gascoine/#comment-344027 MY DAD WOULD BE SO CHUFFED THAT PEOPLE HAVE WROTE SUCH NICE THINGS ABOUT HIM , NO DOUBT HE HAS A BIG GRIN ON HIS FACE. HE NEVER WANTED TO RETIRE AS HE HAS ENJOYED HIS WORK SO MUCH ,HIS LAST PAGE OF WORK IS STILL ON HIS DRAWING BOARD WAITING TO BE FINISHED.THANKS ONCE AGAIN FROM PHILS FAMILY FOR THE LOVELY TRIBUTE TO HIM. XXXXXX MY DAD WOULD BE SO CHUFFED THAT PEOPLE HAVE WROTE SUCH NICE THINGS ABOUT HIM ,
NO DOUBT HE HAS A BIG GRIN ON HIS FACE.
HE NEVER WANTED TO RETIRE AS HE HAS ENJOYED HIS WORK SO MUCH ,HIS LAST PAGE OF WORK IS STILL ON HIS DRAWING BOARD WAITING TO BE FINISHED.THANKS ONCE AGAIN FROM PHILS FAMILY FOR THE LOVELY TRIBUTE TO HIM. XXXXXX

]]> by: John Freeman http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/08/17/rip-phil-gascoine/#comment-338925 Fri, 17 Aug 2007 13:40:25 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/08/17/rip-phil-gascoine/#comment-338925 Thanks for the link. The tributes now include comments from Dave Gibbons, John Ridgway, Mike Collins, DC Thomson editors Bill Graham and George Low, and many others. If you have memories of Phil please send via the contact e-mail on the web site. Sadly, lack of credits in many comics prior to 1977 and the arrival of 2000AD mean many people who like his work never knew he drew it. Thanks for the link. The tributes now include comments from Dave Gibbons, John Ridgway, Mike Collins, DC Thomson editors Bill Graham and George Low, and many others.

If you have memories of Phil please send via the contact e-mail on the web site.

Sadly, lack of credits in many comics prior to 1977 and the arrival of 2000AD mean many people who like his work never knew he drew it.

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