(Mappira-kun, Onboro Jinsei, Ore wa Obake dazo, Ojisoma Daimiyô, Geijigeji Tarô Gyôkôki, Motemote Ojisan, Sebiki no Ninja, Benben Monogatari), dies at age 79. January 8: Manfred Bofinger, German cartoonist, caricaturist, dies at age 64. Jamic, Belgian animator, illustrator, caricaturist and comics artist (Les Télé-Graphistes), passes away at age 69. January 14: Jacques Faizant, French illustrator, political cartoonist and comics artist (Adam et Eve, Le Chimiste BP), passes away at age 87. January 17: Norman McCabe, American animator and illustrator (Looney Tunes), dies at age 94. January 18: Rose Ellison King, American comics writer (Flo & Friends), dies from cancer. January 22: Albert Morse, American publisher (Morse's Funnies) and lawyer for Robert Crumb and other underground comics artists dies at age 67 from kidney disease. January 30: Seth Fisher, American comics artist (Green Lantern: Willworld), dies at age 33 from a fall from a roof. February February 2: Lo Hartog van Banda, Dutch comics writer-artist and TV writer (Arman en Ilva, contributed to Tom Poes, Panda and Eric de Noorman), passes away at age 89. Guglielmo Letteri, Italian comic book artist (worked on Tex Willer), dies at age 80.http://www.afnews.info/public/afnews/viewnews.pl?newsid1139300112,39147,.htm February 4: Myron Waldman, American animator and comics artist (Happy the Humbug, Eve: A Pictorial Love Story), passes away at age 97. February 7: Andrea Bresciani, Slovenian-Italian animator and comics artist (Poldo, Saetta, Tony Falco, Geky Dor, Frontiers of Science), dies at age 83. February 13: Brummett Echohawk, American cartoonist, painter, novelist and actor, dies at age 83. February 17: Giovanni Gandini, Italian comics writer, artist and founder of the magazine Linus, dies at age 76. February 21: Ed Franklin, American political cartoonist, dies at age 84 or 85. March March 13: Olimar Kallas, Estonian comics artist (Eksam XXI sajandisse, Ootamatu pärandus), dies at age 75. March 17: Jaime Mainou, Spanish comics artist (Rolf Kauka, Disney comics), dies at age 75 or 76. March 20: Maurice Raymond, Canadian painter and comics artist (made a comic strip adaptation of Adélard Dugré's La Campagne Canadienne), dies at age 93. Specific date unknown: March: Björn Karlström, Swedish comics artist (Jan Winther, Johnny Wiking, En Resa i Människokroppen), passes away at age 84 or 85. April April 2: Buddy Blue, American rock(abilly) musician, music critic and champion underground comics in articles for the Los Angeles Times and other newspapers, dies of a heart attack at age 48. April 7: John Blackburn, American comics artist (Coley Cochran),