To honor the passing of Dutch comics artist Minck Oosterveer, and to hopefully gain him a wider audience, publisher BOOM! Studios is offering digital copies of his work for free...
Character actress Frances Bay (1919-2011) had more than 150 appearances as doddering, sweet, elderly women, including more than a dozen sf/f/h roles...
Actress Eve Brent (1929-2011), also known as Jean Lewis, is known for, and was typecast for, playing Jane in two 1958 Tarzan movies, but she later broke out of that shell...
Japanese author Sakyo Komatsu (1931-2011) was best known for his 1973 novel Japan Sinks, brought to public awareness again following the earthquake/tsunami that struck his homeland earlier this year...
YA author William Sleator (1945-2011) was a Caldecott honoree for his first book, The Angry Moon, and wrote 30 more books, including Interstellar Pig...
Author Leslie Esdaile Banks, aka L.A. Banks (1959-2011) wrote the paranormal Vampire Huntress Legend and Crimson Moon series, as well as several dozen other novels...
Anthologist Martin Harry Greenberg (1941-2011) was a professor of political science for 30 years, while at the same time founding and leading book packager Tekno Books, which produced more than 1,600 books (most anthologies)...
Alan Ryan (1943-2011) was a writer, editor, anthologist, and critic. He was nominated for the John W. Campbell Best New Writer Award and the World Fantasy Award...
