RIP Thread

[gilesgoat]

Personal, RIP Mauro Troian ( as by this Italian article ) Use Google translate to read it in your language ( is an obituary in Italian ). Apparently it was 80 .. funny thing I remember him ( of course ) with his face when he was 50, I remember seeing him last time in Grado a summer of many years ago while I was working in another restaurant.

He was the CHEF at the very first cook school ( ENFAP ? ) I frequented over .. over 30 years ago .. I remember "many things" that happened there, quite a few funny ones

He was "the typical chef you'd find in a kitchen ( loud and proud )" but he was a really good teacher too, it's thanks to the cook job I started to make "real money" and who knows where I'd be now without it.

Anyway he was a character I can't forget .. "we done quite some shit togehter in that kitchen"

Oh well .. time passes .. ..

[tufty]

Dick Cheney finally pegged it.

[F-ZeroOne]

James Watson, co-discoverer of DNA - and yes, I am aware of the full history *cough*Rosalind Franklin*cough* - and sometimes not exactly great guy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Watson

[Ratsoap]

Rebecca Heineman, Space Invaders champ and co-founder of Interplay.

https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry ... -has-died/

[Mayhem]

Yeah. Was FB friends with her, so was following her trials and tribulations during cancer treatment. Have written up her obituary for the next issue of Zzap.

[F-ZeroOne]

Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner:

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/d ... wtab-en-gb

Everyone probably knows him as the guy that did that film they liked, and for me that film was "The Princess Bride":

[F-ZeroOne]

Gil Gerard, probably best known as man-thrown-out-of-his-time-and-that-time-was-the-70s Captain Buck Rogers:

https://www.ign.com/articles/buck-roger ... es-aged-82

[tufty]

Édika, cartoonist for Fluide Glaciale.

[noodles]

Ben merde alors.



Tufty, your second illustration is by Gotlib.

[tufty]

Dammit, it is, isn't it.

Merde.

[dsssssssss9]

I've just seen this ...

https://www.bytedelight.com/

[Whiteball]

Vince Zampella who co-created Call of Duty and just helped the Battlefield franchise get back to a sound footing.

https://www.guru3d.com/story/call-of-du ... car-crash/

[gilesgoat]

Édika, cartoonist for Fluide Glaciale.

*SNIP*

I remember Edika been published in a - weird - Italian comic magazine I can't remember the name .. his stories are ... "surreal" to say the least ( ah right it was "Totem Comic" ).

His graphic style is .. unique .. as his humour .. I remember some bits and pieces of certain stories that made me laugh and go WTF ? Like nothing else

There was one all centered around a guy that was always travelling and any time he was returning back home from a trip he was finding his wife in bed with a different man and she was always screming "Oh my God ! My husband !" followed by "incredible situations".

In another one one guy that had only "a few coins to get a bus ticket to get home" tried to get services from a prostitute that said "Sorry I have nothing in my list of services for so low price" .. and then it started a super-surreal set of situations where this guy was harassing her asking for "most improbable services" to match that price ...

One of the best was one about a journalist guy that went on a beach super full of people doing "a research/interviews" about "what people at the beach tollerates" and picks up a guy sit close to a semi naked lady and starts asking the guy "Would you mind if I do THIS to the lady ?" ( and touches her in some part ), the guy visibly annoyed says "I DON'T CARE AT ALL !" .. so the journalist "escalates" repeating the question and "getting ever more hard core" and touching more sensitive areas ( while the lady meanwhile seemed not bothered at all ) .. and the guy even more annoyed of him asking and always replying something like "I DO NOT CARE !" ..

Until at some point while he's doing all that a MASSIVE OGRE-LIKE guy with a really nasty face appears holding 2 icecreams .. looks at the journalist ( still touching the lady ) and says to the other guy "Thank you for holding my place close to MY wife while I was buying the icecreams .. " and the other guy always with that annoyed way goes "Ah don't worry about it, no problem" .. and goes away ..

What follows is "an incredible set of surreal situations" ...

Yes Edika is a great cartoonist

[gilesgoat]

Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner:

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/d ... wtab-en-gb

Everyone probably knows him as the guy that did that film they liked, and for me that film was "The Princess Bride":

*SNIP*

It's sad ... to me one of THE BEST SCENES I EVER SEEN in a movie was "the battle with Vizzini" ... incredible ..

[F-ZeroOne]

Erich von Däniken , the original "I'm not saying it was aliens but... " guy.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/entertainment/ar ... ies-at-90/