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RIP Al Feldstein

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HOTFLIPS

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That is sad news, he and my father became friends at the conventions, every time he was going to do a panel he asked my father to come all the time. My dad is a long time follower of EC Comics

RIP Al

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Darth Corgi

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Talked to him at a Megacon in 2006. He was just hanging out with a table. No one was really around him. I got to chat with him about art, life and his incredible journey through both. RIP to a legend. EC comics are some of the best ever created and he was a big part of that.

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Not*Sure*

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How awful!! He was such a sweetie and so interesting to talk to.

RIP man..

I remember when I went to the EC panel at comic con one year, I brought my vintage Mad mags and asked the folks to sign them. He sorted out a few issues and said "I am only in these not any of those. I have never had anyone bring in magazines this old to get signed. You aren't flinching about me putting a sharpie down on a Mad #6?"

 

We had a really interesting conversation about original art..

 

just a funny and nice entertaining guy. I will definitely miss him!

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He and Stan Lee were the two most important creators in comics. He plotted most of EC's horror and sci-fi stories. And for almost 30 years, every issue of Mad flowed through his typewriter.

 

I really wish I could have met him at a convention. :(

 

If you haven't bought his art book, 'The Mad Life and Fantastic Art of Al Feldstein', buy it. It's magnificent.

I just saw that book for the first time yesterday. Just bought a copy.

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RIP to the great man - I'd never had the pleasure in meeting him but I did had lot of good memories in reading old MAD 'zines and these incredible EC sci-fic stories. I discovered these EC stories in the boxed volume sets when I was a boy in the '70s.

 

From the day I opened these books ... my mind was never the same since! I tip my hat to his creative talent! (worship)

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He and Stan Lee were the two most important creators in comics. He plotted most of EC's horror and sci-fi stories. And for almost 30 years, every issue of Mad flowed through his typewriter.

 

I really wish I could have met him at a convention. :(

 

If you haven't bought his art book, 'The Mad Life and Fantastic Art of Al Feldstein', buy it. It's magnificent.

I just saw that book for the first time yesterday. Just bought a copy.

 

You won't be disappointed. It's a superb book. 35 bucks at Amazon is almost criminally cheap for what you get.

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About 5 of us had a nice sit-down dinner with Al a few years back. He had A LOT of stories and was quite happy to talk about his years at EC. He talked about the reasons behind Gaines keeping all those file copies. It was truly a hobby highlight for me hearing 2 hours of tales.

 

 

Thanks again Al! :foryou:

 

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Doohickamabob

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No mention in the article of his EC stuff -- that's a shame, he was a legend!

There will be in the NYT Obit tomorrow - real news.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/01/business/media/soul-of-mad-magazine-al-feldstein-dies-at-88.html?_r=0

Much better write up than the ABC squib.

Now that's a write-up!

 

One quirk though.... At the end of the article is this:

 

Correction: May 1, 2014

An earlier version of this obituary misstated the subject’s surname in the headline. As the article correctly noted, he is Al Feldstein, not Goldstein.

Oopsie!

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