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Death is a Part of Life

Let's take a moment to appreciate the geek family we have around us, shall we?


Today I've heard word of not one but two passings that have some relation to us North American anime fans.

A friend passed me an e-mail informing me that anime-style artist and illustrator Robert DeJesus, who has done work for everyone from Anime Insider to Dark Horse to Marvel to PlayStation over the last twenty-some-odd years, and a regular fixture at the anime convention scene (he even got married at Acen 2001), has lost his younger sister Giselle to cancer. She was only 33 years old.

ANN also just got word that Spencer Prokop, a writer and actor who worked on a number of FUNimation dubs (including, but not limited to, Mushi-Shi, One Piece, Darker than Black, and BECK), has also passed on. He was 51.

Let's take a moment to appreciate the geek family we have around us, shall we?
Kuroon June 16, 2009 at 2:08 p.m.
Sucks.

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