>Marsha Cooke, the wife of fan-favorite comic book writer-artist Darwyn Cooke informed Cooke's fans Friday morning the creator is receiving palliative care following a bout with aggressive cancer. In a blog post entitled "f**k cancer, Cooke writes:
>"It is with tremendous sadness that we announce Darwyn is now receiving palliative care following a bout with aggressive cancer. His brother Dennis and I, along with our families appreciate the outpouring of support we have received. We ask for privacy as we go through this very difficult time. Urgent inquiries please contact David Hyde.
>Marsha
What's your favorite Cooke work? His Jonah Hex and ASW issues were tremendous, and New Frontier is one of my favorite comics of all time
>Darwyn Cooke has cancer >Land and Leifeld still in perfect health
There is no god
Austin Wright
It's the reason why Revengeance (Image Comics) is delayed to an unknown date.
Ayden Flores
Before Watchmen though
Gavin Diaz
I loved his stuff on the Spirit revival.
Henry Baker
Selina's Big Score, more so than his actual Catwoman run, his stint on the relaunch of The Spirit, his Parker adaptations are good adaptions but they're also pretty strict adaptations with some killer segments in which Cooke deviated a bit that I wish more of them had. Twilight Children I enjoyed but I only read it because Gilbert Hernandez worked on it and I'm probably in the minority but outside of the first issue with The Losers I wasn't big on New Frontier. I wonder how long he's had this though because thI aforementioned Twilight Children wrapped up only a few months ago and he had to and finished that final issue at least some months prior to that.
Aiden Gutierrez
>palliative care fuck...
Wyatt Smith
Definitely New Frontier.
John Long
Yeah, the second I read that I knew it's going to be over relatively soon.
Shit.
Jordan Robinson
Can we get /x/ to break stan lee vampirism?
Dominic Lewis
I will take that over Land or Leifeld drawing any book.
Christian Diaz
I guess that explains the Comixology sale on his stuff
Yeah, that fucking sucks. Hopefully he doesn't have to suffer long
Cooper Peterson
Man thats rough for him
Nathan Hill
>aunt has months to live >cooke has days to weeks >finding out about both within days of each other wew cancer
Fuck. I got some tears in my eyes. Fuck cancer indeed. Horrible news. My heart goes out to him and his family. Dunno if he himself smoked, but that added lil sketch he did of smoke coming from Sam's cigarette of the cover of my copy of his Solo seems bittersweet. He was very nice when I met him and his panel was amazing. Such an amazing and still pretty young talent. Just horrible to hear.
Gavin Bell
Cancer is overrated these days, loads of people survive it
William Scott
>Company Wars I want the Sup Forums and Sup Forums to leave
Dylan Edwards
mods please ban this fuck
Landon Ortiz
Stay mad DCuck
David Cox
;_;
Joshua Nelson
It depends on how fast you find it and how old you are.
Juan Wilson
>can't handle the bantz
Don't worry he'll be good
He only has 32% cancer rating
Jayden Torres
Yeah, but palliative care implies that paths towards overcoming the cancer have all been exhausted and only remaining treatment is to lessen pain in the last weeks of ones life.
Ayden Bell
When he came to town one year for a comic thing I got a signed copy of The Hunter, and when he did a month of variant covers I got them all hoping if he comes back I can get them all signed too.
Liam Reyes
I was going to say, the timing with the sale is weird.
Jack Cox
>palliative care following a bout with aggressive cance >palliative RIP
Carter Brown
I thought maybe it was because Revengeance was finally coming out.
James Davis
>He will never work on a potential revival of Batman Beyond. >He Will never finish Parker.
Goddamn.
Kayden King
I wish they didn't say anything until he died even if that sounds selfish. His illness has clearly been private for months to years and for them to announce he's in palliative, it's just giving heads up to everyone he's going to pass away soon
Julian Jones
I feel so helpless, man. I wish there was something I could do to help. I guess the best I can do is buy Cooke's stuff and donate to cancer research, but even that feels almost pointless. Fuck cancer.
Angel Torres
His Parker comics stopped 3 years ago, they never even bothered putting out another Martini edition and they stopped the paperback reprints at The Hunter, that line was dead.
Jacob Parker
>the creator is receiving palliative care following a bout with aggressive cancer.
Gee I didn't realize Dan Didio was that savage!
Landon Hill
It's possible they decided to let everyone know before someone else did.
Joshua Ross
Though what? Cooke got a nice payday, good on him.
James Adams
Stop responding. Just ignore and report.
Lincoln Scott
It's way too late. The public (us) is not going to take it very well no matter who says it because at this point he is on his way to clocking out
Jayden Jackson
Man this year sucks.
I hope he pulls through and gets better from it, but palliative care...
Isaiah Parker
>tfw
Luis Roberts
>LOL COMPANY WARS
a man's dying, guys
Cooper Garcia
It's just a bunch of underage kids who just read "a DC artist"
Leo Lewis
That's a bloody shame.
Nolan Jones
This really sucks.
Wyatt Scott
2016 is one of the worst years of my life. People I like dying, shitty results from my sports teams and a general feeling of days feeling shorter than ever. On top of that my depression is getting worse and I've given up on hope that I won't die alone. Fuck this gay existence.
John Cook
I'm willing to bet there's false-flagging mixed in there.
Bentley Jackson
>Revengeance delayed >the new Parker book delayed
Well, this certainly makes sense in retrospect.
Fuck.
Noah Harris
>Cooke books have % off digital books >Then this happens
Cooper Rivera
>a man's dying, guys
Just like DC lol
Aaron Campbell
ty for the bump frogposter
Owen Martin
While its definitely a nice sentiment, ultimately I'd prefer to physically own Cooke's work. But I suppose a digital sale is probably a quick boost to help pay bills.
Levi Martinez
>this thread >drones in charge of not being complete pieces of shit
What the fuck is wrong with you faggots? Are you that proud of your popcorn capewank schlock that you gotta ruin the entire board with your bullshit?
MODS FFS
John Garcia
Damn.
Alexander Mitchell
He doesn.t just have cancer. He has terminal cancer and is now only receiving care to manage pain. RIP
Hudson Myers
The cure for sadness is comedy!
Nolan Price
Fuck, crazy that you find out about these kinda things outta nowhere.
Summoning meme magic; if dubs, Cooke survives cancer
William Reed
>Darwyn Cooke will die soon and there will be no more of his art >Rob Liefeld, Greg Land & Erica Henderson are fine God damn it
Jayden Wright
Nigga he's in palliative care. There's no surviving for him. At this point you just wish it takes them quickly from the amount of pain they're in
Noah Perez
Truly is a tragic evening on Friday the 13th.
Levi Ramirez
>There's no surviving for him.
Well not with that attitude.
>tfw user's negativity kills Cooke
Good going, user.
Luke Lee
You're not wrong but there are statistical outliers. As someone whose only stake in this is enjoying the guy's work (ie not actually doing medical treatment or advising the family) there's no real harm in hoping something odd happens here and he flukes his way to recovery.
Adam Morales
You just gotta pray to the patron saint of cancer and the patron saint of lost causes, then they do the fusion dance and form one super saint seya.
Owen Jackson
I only know this guy from a month of variants from him a year or so back.
His style is fantastic. What are some must read works of his?
Jace Scott
Liefeld pays other creators well while Cooke was involved in Before Watchmen.
Adrian Torres
read the thread
Dominic Ward
New Frontier Brubaker's Catwoman His Solo issue His Jonah Hex issues Parker Batman: Ego
Nicholas Diaz
If my fiber IP wasn't banned by this dogshit site, I would be story timing New Frontier. Such an awesome book. It is on sale currently at comixology too.
This suggestively homoerotic piece was my introduction to Cooke
Noah Sullivan
Checked
Logan Sanchez
>Superman not flying off with bomb so Batman could feel useful What a guy.
Cameron Jenkins
he was too busy snapping those guys necks in the background
Angel Campbell
>Haha, I said 'Break a Leg', Old Chum, not necks!
Michael Evans
>cooke will never do a Cap book
Bentley Gray
...
Grayson Parker
Someone post the story of his beef with Marvel
Noah Miller
Leifeld doesn't draw anymore bub. He supports independent artist and hire people to work on his concepts. Example Moore on Supreme or Brandon Graham with Prophet. Darwin Cooke getting cancer is horrible knews but that doesn't mean Liefeld or even Land deserve it. Cancer is a horrible thing and doesn't matter how bad was the work of someone, they don't deserve something like that
Bentley Davis
You don't mess with the work of a powerful wizard like Moore. Just look at this or Moore creating Millar with his magic to ruin Grant
Zachary Phillips
Liefeld still works draws fairly regularly. Other examples Keatinge on Supreme and paying Jack Kirby.
>a transcript of an SDCC 2015 Kirby tribute panel that Liefeld was on and was moderated by Mark Evanier (an assistant to Kirby a long time ago).
>There was a section where Liefeld recounted how Phantom Force came about, it was when he and some of his Extreme Studios guys were invited by Jack and Roz to their house. And Liefeld was allowed to take a look at the drawers of unpublished art, and suddenly had an idea when he saw a sequence of pages and asked Jack and Roz if he and the other people at Image (McFarlane, Lee, Larsen, Silvestri, etc) could take them and ink them. Jack and Roz agreed, and the other Image guys agreed to ink it.
>Evanier pointed out that Liefeld left out one part of the story, that while other people in the last 10 years of Kirby's life did tributes to Kirby, like naming a character after him or what not, the Image guys, they actually gave Jack a "very, very large check" for Phantom Force #1, and Evanier felt that for someone like Kirby, who was around during the Depression-era and didn't always get fully compensated for his work, that might've meant more to him than tributes within a comic.
Benjamin Campbell
Who gives a shit about the public? They did it so they can asure thier privacy
Christopher Lewis
This. It was such an underrated gem.
William Barnes
I'm incredibly sad to learn this. Cooke has always been an artist I enjoy and respect. His contributions to Batman Beyond's striking, unique, and memorable aesthetic will always excite me. I also loved his work with Brubaker on Catwoman; Cooke has a suave, sexy, and classic look to his style, and there's no one else like him.
I hope that his road ahead is as painless as possible...
Robert Thompson
I think to many, New Frontier will be considered his magnum opus. I only got around to reading it last year, and damn was it good. Just a fantastic feel, from front to back, the art and story were so comfy. It's the kind of think that I could easily settle in and read in a single sitting without realizing it. His work on Jonah Hex is top notch as well.
Cooke is an amazing unique talent. I hope for the best for him and his family.
Jackson Brown
Agreed
Samuel Rodriguez
His Spirit comics are so fucking based.
I'll storytime the Spirit / Batman crossover late tonight if anyone gives a shit
Isaiah Hughes
I would love it.
John Rodriguez
Grant only exists because of Millar.
Liam Russell
Palliative care is not necessarily hospice. It could mean that he won and they're trying to get him back into good condition, but the odds are no,
Jaxson Johnson
That's what tripfaggotry gets you.
Isaiah Martin
The post from his sister doesn't sound hopeful
Joseph Torres
This is awesome, would have loved to have had a WWII mini Cap comic by Cooke.
Too bad Marvel fucked him over and with Cooke throwing coffee at an editor and this it will never happen now.
Nathaniel Allen
The only works of his I read were on X-Statix, sorry to hear though.
Aaron Turner
King coming through again.
Samuel Roberts
BASED as always
Anthony Smith
Holy fuck, no wonder there was no announcement on the next Parker.
Fuck, and I remember he was looking forward to doing Butcher's Moon.
>What's your favorite Cooke work? His Jonah Hex and ASW issues were tremendous, and New Frontier is one of my favorite comics of all time
His adaptations of Parker, also New Frontier and the Hex stuff.
Justin Morales
>No Revengeance >No Parker >Twilight Children still somehow got drawn I wonder for how long he had it all drawn or if that was the last thing he powered through before focusing on health recovery
Dang. There's been a lot of times where Cooke has rubbed me the wrong way as a person but I hope he pulls through. No one should suffer cancer.
Oliver Fisher
No, the story went like this:
Cooke pitched a kids' line to Marvel. He planned it would include himself and other collaborators like J. Bone. May have been pitched to Axel Alonso. A lot of time later, Cooke discovered that Marvel would be doing Marvel Age or Marvel Adventures. He got pissed. Cooke confronted Alonso at a convention and threw a beer at him and so Marvel held a grudge and that's why there was no new Cooke work for Marvel since then.