{"id":5463,"date":"2008-06-30T08:08:27","date_gmt":"2008-06-30T08:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/?p=5463"},"modified":"2008-06-30T08:08:27","modified_gmt":"2008-06-30T08:08:27","slug":"michael-turner-1971-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2008\/06\/michael-turner-1971-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Turner (1971 &#8211; 2008)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><a href='http:\/\/www.comicbookresources.com\/?page=article&#038;id=16988' class=\"external\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/michaelturnerwitchbladefath.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"michaelturnerwitchbladefath\" width=\"500\" height=\"251\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5464\" \/><\/a> <\/div>\n<blockquote><p>Turner is an artist best known for his work on books like \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Witchblade,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d where he got his start in comics, moving on to titles such as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Black Panther,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Superman\/Batman\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicbookresources.com\/?page=article&#038;id=16988\" class=\"external external_icon\">his very own creator owned series \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Fathom\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Soulfire\u00e2\u20ac\u009d through his publishing company<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aspencomics.com\/\" class=\"external external_icon\">Aspen Comics<\/a>. A prolific artist, he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s done work for both DC Comics and Marvel Comics, and has provided covers to some of the best-known comics published in the last ten years, including Brad Meltzer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Identity Crisis.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>More details concerning Turner\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s passing are forthcoming. Those wishing to send their condolences to Michael Turner&#8217;s family are encouraged to send them to:<\/p>\n<p>Aspen MLT, Inc.<br \/>\nC\/O Michael Turner<br \/>\n5855 Green Valley Circle, Suite 111<br \/>\nCulver City, CA, 90230<\/p>\n<p>Aspen Comics also encourages anyone wishing to make a charitable donation in Turner\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s name can do so to his requested charities, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cancer.org\/docroot\/home\/index.asp\" class=\"external external_icon\">The American Cancer Society<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wish.org\/\" class=\"external external_icon\">The Make-A-Wish Foundation<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>37 years old. That&#8217;s tragic and not right at all.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com\/comicbooks\/archives\/142264.asp?from=blog_last3\" class=\"external external_icon\">seattle pi<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aspencomics.com\/\" class=\"external external_icon\">aspen comics<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicbookresources.com\/?page=article&#038;id=16988\" class=\"external external_icon\">CBR<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsarama.com\/comics\/080628-Turner.html\" class=\"external external_icon\">newsarama<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turner is an artist best known for his work on books like \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Witchblade,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d where he got his start in comics, moving on to titles such as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Black Panther,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Superman\/Batman\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and his very own creator owned series \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Fathom\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Soulfire\u00e2\u20ac\u009d through his publishing company Aspen Comics. A prolific artist, he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s done work for both DC Comics [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,29],"tags":[281,282,280,259],"class_list":["post-5463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics","category-people-who-died","tag-aspen-comics","tag-cancer","tag-fathom","tag-sad-now"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}