and artist (Madame Fatal, Invisible Hood), dies at age 85. August 30: Raymond Poïvet, French comics artist (Les Pionniers de l'Espérance), dies at age 89. September September 14: Joel Beck, American underground cartoonist (Lenny of Laredo, Marching Marvin, The Profit), dies from complications from alcoholism at age 56. September 17: Antal Szemere, Hungarian comics artist, dies at age 76. September 29: Alfred J. Buescher, American comics artist (Illustrated Sunday School Lesson, Joe and Judy, Eski), dies at age 96. September 30: Antoni Batllori Jofré, Spanish comics artist (published in TBO), dies at age 84. October October 29: Greg, Belgian comics artist and writer (Achille Talon, Bernard Prince, Comanche, Bruno Brazil), dies at age 68. November November 2: Dick Turner, American comics artist (Carnival, Mr. Merryweather), dies at age 90. November 14: Giorgio Bordini, Italian comics artist, animator and illustrator (He and She, Disney comics), passes away at age 72. Jacky Pals, Belgian comics artist (Studio Vandersteen, worked on Bessy), dies at age 52 from legionnaires' disease. December December 1: Thornton Robyn Utz, American illustrator and comics artist (made pantomime comics for The Saturday Evening Post), passes away at age 85. December 3: Péter Kuczka, Hungarian poet, editor, writer, comics writer and artist, dies at age 76. December 5: Ruth Carroll, American illustrator and comic artist (continued Just Among Us Girls and The Pussycat Princess), dies at age 100. December 10: Al Stahl, American animator and comics artist (Flatfoot Burns, Star Detective), dies at age 83. December 14: Jan Mintaraga, aka Suwalbiyanto Soemodihardjo, Indonesian comics artist (Sebuah Noda Hitam), dies at age 58 from lung cancer. December 15: Rune Andréasson, Swedish comics artist (Bamse), dies at age 74. December 16: Marcel Remacle, Belgian comics artist (Bobosse, Le Vieux Nick et Barbe-Noire, Hultrasson), passes away at age 73. December 23: Captain Roscoe Fawcett, American comics writer (Screen Oddities, with Bud Thompson), passes away at age 86. December 24: Vic Neill, British comics artist (The McTickles, Wee Ben Nevis, Billy Whizz, Tim Traveller, Plug, continued Mickey the Monkey), dies at age 58. December 27: Wilfred Limonious, Jamaican comics artist and illustrator (Chicken, Amos), passes away at age 50. December 31: Roger Lécureux, French comics writer (Les Pionniers de l' Espérance, Rahan) and chief editor of Vaillant), dies at age 74. Specific date unknown Erwin Hess, American comics artist (worked for Dell Comics, celebrity comics based on Gene Autry), dies at age 86. Juan