The Comic Strips Loose Another Legend

[Nelson]

THIS JUST IN...

One of the most currently famous comic strip felines HEATHCLIFF creator, GEORGE GATLEY past away last Sunday 9/30/01 in his home in New Jersey...He was Seventy Two yrs old, and he will sadley be missed :( :( :(

It's a sad day for the comic strips all throughout the country...

[lislebartman]

That's a shame. Does "Heathcliff" still appear in the comics? It's not carried in any of the Chicago papers. Or did he retire the character?

[Glenn]

I know that It's in the Staten Island Advance.

I liked that cartoon. He'll be missed.

Glenn

[BobChief]

www.comics.com, which carries this and other United Media 'toons, lists no strips since Sept. 26th, a week ago. This must have been a sudden illness.

[Andrew Gilmore]

:( Sad. I like(d) Heathcliff.
I hate to say it, but I have a suspicion the great Mort Walker is next in line.. he's 80.

[Matthew Hunter]

Gee, that's sad. I liked that strip. We never had it locally, but I had a book of Heathcliff strips one time, and it used to be carried in the Philadelphia paper, and I'd read it when I was visiting family. One of the greats, Let me tell you. And don't get me started on the cartoon series....that was a classic.
Seems like we lose more and more of these guys, in the past couple of years we've lost Jeff MacNelly, Charles Schulz, and I believe several others. Most all of these strips live on, but I don't know about Heathcliff...he was Gately's character all the way.
-Matthew

[BourgeoisBuffoon]

Nooo!!! Why? All the classic comics' creators are dying! This is sucky...my condolences to his family. I remember Heacliffe being one of the first strips I ever read...(sniff)
At least someone else remembers the cartoon! I rented lots of videos of it from the video store when I was a kid. :D

It's a pity the strip won't be carried into reruns...

[Dub]

That totally bites. :(

I remember growing up on heathcliff - be it the comic or the cartoon. How sad. :(


I thought Mort Walker had retired briefly. What is he doing right now?

[Andrew Gilmore]

Originally posted by Jon "WB" Gray
I thought Mort Walker had retired briefly. What is he doing right now?

Retired briefly? As in "a month or so" briefly, I assume-- I hadn't heard about that.. but he was still drawing Beetle Bailey prior to this retirement, and will be returning to doing so after this brief retirement, I assume-- actually, now that I think of it, a "brief retirement" would be more properly called "a sabbatical", but anyway, my point was that he's still working but might not be for too much longer, considering his age.