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Denise Millet, illustrator & comic book artist

29Mar

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France, Noteworthy, Profiles

Denise Millet, illustrator & comic book artist

Denise Millet –a French illustrator and comic book artist – died from Covid-19 on 28 March 2020. She worked with her husband, Claude Millet. The works of Claude and Denise Millet spanned from 1976 to 2019 and included nearly 200 titles. The pair collaborated with Bayard Presse, and designed the comic strip Pic et Pik, written by Stéphanie Janicot. They also drew a biographical comic of Martin Luther King, Jr., written by Benoît Marchon. Besides comics, Millet worked in advertising, communication, and cinema. She, along with Claude, designed the poster for I Hate Actors (1986), which was nominated for the César Award for Best Poster. Denise Millet died on 28 March 2020 at the age of 86 in Lariboisière Hospit...

28Mar

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Brazil, Noteworthy, Profiles

Daniel Azulay, artist

Daniel Azulay –a Brazilian visual artist, comic book artist, and educator, with vast and diverse performance in the press and on TV as a draftsman – died of Covid-19 on March 27, 2020. He is most known for the children's franchise Turma do Lambe-Lambe. He died due to complications brought on by COVID-19. Azulay was born in Rio de Janeiro and raised in Ipanema. He was of Jewish origin and the youngest son of lawyer Fortunato and Clarita, who drew a classic design in Paris. In 1968, he created the newspaper strip Capitão Cipó, published in the newspaper Correio da Manhã and in 1975, launched the Turma do Lambe-Lambe. Capitão Cipó was a parody on the sexual revolution and is visually a bit similar ...

24Mar

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Noteworthy, Profiles, United Kingdom

Paul Karslake, artist

Paul Karslake ‑ a British artist, primarily a painter ‑ died on 23 March 2020 of sudden onset pneumonia, which was caused by COVID-19. Karslake was born in Basildon, Essex. He studied at SEEVIC College and Southend College of Art and Technology and started working with his father, Michael Karslake, an architectural model-maker working on such projects as Centre Point and the Thames Barrier. In the early 1970s Karslake was tutored by Sir Peter Scott; towards the end of that decade he met Salvador Dalí during a trip to Spain. Karslake then spent four years in California, working for the LA Art Studios, CBS Television and Disney, with whom he later collaborated on the EuroDisney project. Karslake had numerous solo exhibitions, and became famous for his d...

24Mar

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Noteworthy, Profiles, United States

Nashom Wooden, artist

Nashom Wooden –an American performing artist – died due to Covid-19 on March 23, 2020. Wooden was a member of the electronic dance music band The Ones and performed as a drag queen under the stage name Mona Foot. Wooden was raised in Brooklyn, New York, and entered the New York nightlife scene as a Club Kid in the mid-1980s. By 1989, he worked in Manhattan running the men's clothing department at Patricia Field's boutique while developing the drag queen persona Mona Foot with his friend and former roommate Lady Bunny. Wooden credits RuPaul as an early mentor; RuPaul taught Wooden how to apply makeup, and both appeared in an off-Broadway play titled My Pet Homo. As Mona Foot, Wooden hosted the weekly drag competition "Mona Foot's ...