Collecting John Lent memories, stories, tributes to publish

If you're interested, please send me what you would like to say about John. I'll put them together and post on Ijoca's blog. If you've already written something on Facebook or a list serve or directly to me, please send it again so I know it's ok to publish. Cartoons would be fine too as would photos.

I'll probably space things over several days so don't worry about getting it in late.

Bart Beaty is writing an obituary for the comics journal but Ijoca will have one as well. 

Please forward to anyone who might be interested.

Mike

mrhode@gmail.com

Pioneering comics scholar John Lent RIP

Dr. John A. Lent passed away today at 2:30 pm from injuries he suffered from a fall at home several days ago.  His living will expressed his desire not to have extraordinary measures taken to keep him alive, so he was removed from life support on Thursday. John never regained consciousness after the fall, but his family was with him at the hospital today.  John was a few months shy of his 90th birthday, and remained productive up until his accident. He had two more books essentially finished and the upcoming issue of IJOCA largely completed.

I believe he requested cremation rather than burial, but I will provide more details as they become available.  IJOCA's blog will have a formal obituary and memorials from his friends and colleagues at some point in the near future.

IJOCA delayed due to EiC John Lent's accident

Last week (roughly ten days ago), publisher and editor-in-chief John Lent fell down the stairs of his house and badly injured himself. His family has rallied around him, including his wife Xu Ying who flew in from China, but Dr. Lent has not yet regained consciousness. When I have any news, I will update this blog post. 

In the meantime, some activity will continue and contributors should send their book and exhibit reviews to me, and may also send articles if they would prefer to see them published here since the print edition is indefinitely postponed.

 I can be reached at mrhode at gmail.com 

 Mike Rhode

assistant editor (or something like that)