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RIP, Joe Edwards
February 12, 2007 @ 03:07 AM
- by Brian Cronin
- in General
- 3 Comments
The other week, when the blog was shut down for the night and I posted a piece on the old blog to give people their fix, I ended up posting a quiz. My alternative was a Top Five of the Top Five Li’l Jinx characters. So it is more than a little creepy to me that a few days later, Joe Edwards, creator (and he worked on the characters their entire run) of Li’l Jinx passed away.
Edwards was a great comic artist, specializing in mostly funny animal comics most of his career, but I have always been a big fan of his Li’l Jinx series.
Edwards was 85 years old.
3 Comments
Bill Reed
February 12, 2007 at 11:30 pm
It’s a damn shame.
And also a damn shame no one seems to care.
Kevin Shaw
February 13, 2007 at 2:47 pm
I, for one, DO CARE. For some years I’d been hopeing that SOMEONE could get Joe to Comic-Con, but to no avail. I was once told by long-time ‘Archie’ scribe George Gladir that Joe had been very ill, so much so that getting to any convention was unlikely. I’ve long been a fan of his work (my subcription to Lil Jinx in the early 70s was one of the first I ever had to ANY publication) but knew almost nothing of the man behind the work until a few internet postings following his death.
Not mentioned was his run on the title “Archie and Me” during the 60s which were mostly book-length stories (divided into chapters) featuring Mr. Weatherbee with Archie, which were also reprinted as paperback collections by Bantam Books in the late 60s/early 70s.His super-hero spoof “Captain Sprocket” that ran in “Archies Madhouse” (written by Gladir?) was a fave of myself and my older siblings in the mid-60s. Also not mentioned was his run on Archies own ‘Archie’ clone “Wilber” that must have lasted about a decade until he was replaced by Decarlo on the title for the final few issues
I’d always suspected that Joe wrote his own stuff in addition to doing the art chores as his stuff was always a bit different than the more screwball, more slapstick stories in the other Archie stories that were contemporary to his.
Does anyone know of any extended bio and/or interview with him? -or with Harry Lucey or Samm Schwartz?
Never met the man, but he will be deeply missed.
Mikado
February 14, 2007 at 8:08 pm
I long ago gave up “comics” for manga, but, I recall fondly the big “Lil Jinx Christmas Bag Giant” issues and the nice little “break” the LJ strip gave the young readers of Archie Comics from the “main” stories of Archie and the gang…Nice work Joe!