Brant Parker dead at 86

Axonite · Post by **Axonite** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 5:21 pm

Just 8 days after Johnny Hart.

http://www.pressconnects.com/apps/pbcs. ... /704160350

Dutch! · Post by **Dutch!** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 10:41 pm

Bugger. The Wizard of Id and BC are two of my favourites, being old style comics. Although, truth be told, I'd read them before I'd read most webcomic stuff.

Bugger.

Jackhass · Post by **Jackhass** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 11:27 pm

What the heck?

Now that's just bizarre...two guys who worked on a comic together (Wizard of ID) and had very similar styles die and pretty much exactly the same time? God's having a chuckle.

Noise Monkey · Post by **Noise Monkey** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 6:36 am

Jackhass wrote:God's having a chuckle.

Apparently, He didn't like dealing with the syndicates.

Nomadic Phoenix · Post by **Nomadic Phoenix** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 8:48 am

Yet another awesome comic bites the dust. Fare thee well.

Vorticus · Post by **Vorticus** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 11:25 am

IT'S A CONSPIRACY. Clearly someone is assassinating these comic creators! Who will be next?!

Cortland · Post by **Cortland** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 5:18 pm

Oh noes.

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 9:04 pm

You got me on wtf mode for a few moments there.

Yeahduff · Post by **Yeahduff** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 9:28 pm

Vorticus wrote:IT'S A CONSPIRACY. Clearly someone is assassinating these comic creators! Who will be next?!

Can I go next, please?

RobertBlake · Post by **RobertBlake** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 9:41 pm

Damn. 'Wizard of Id' was one of my favourites to read before the local rag dropped it.

Leujin · Post by **Leujin** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 8:47 pm

Dang. This takes a serious blow to my local paper. We run like... 10 comics, 2 of which being wizard of ID and BC. We ran foxtrot, too.

Honestly I don't read that paper any more, but I assume they had to do some sort of hustle or electric boogaloo to find replacements.

Or they just did the same thing with peanuts and were one of many papers to start running "classic peanuts"

Rcmonroe · Post by **Rcmonroe** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 10:52 am

It has been announced that both "BC" and "Id" are going to continue.

Brant Parker hadn't been drawing "Id" for awhile anyway, his son was drawing it.

And although Hart was credited as the writer of the strip, I'm relatively certain more than one person was contributing gags.

You probably won't even notice a difference.

Leujin · Post by **Leujin** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 11:19 am

Well then.

There we are.

Axonite · Post by **Axonite** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 5:45 pm

rcmonroe wrote:Brant Parker hadn't been drawing "Id" for awhile anyway, his son was drawing it.

And although Hart was credited as the writer of the strip, I'm relatively certain more than one person was contributing gags.

You probably won't even notice a difference.

I think I read Jeff Parker has been drawing Id since 1997.

One problem with his style is the occasional strip since he took over that involves Sir Rodney's nose... which now looks the same as anyone else's (and is in fact smaller than the King's!) but was being written for as if it still looked like it did when Brant Parker was drawing it.