I heard late last night that Mike Turner passed away shortly after 10PM this past Friday night. He had been battling cancer for several years, but it really isn’t something that you usually thought about when you picked up a Mike Turner cover. Usually you just said “Damn, that’s cool!” And then you opened it up, and the interior was nowhere near as cool

Some people don’t like his art, but the fact is that he was a great inspiration to lots of people, including me. I will never be able to draw in the same league as him, but just to know that there are people like that who can bring a fresh style and totally throw the comics industry for a loop, and then break off and create their own micro-sized comic publishing businesses (and succeed!) makes me feel good.

Kind of sad to know that there will never be another Mike Turner book or cover. But his fans will never forget him.

~JW