HEALTHWATCH: Comic artist John Buscema

[DESSCRIBE1]

The following message was posted by John C. Baker on
rec.arts.comics.marvel-universe:

Passed onto me from the Avengers mailing list:

----- Original Message -----
From: "Keith R.A. DeCandido" <kr...@ix.netcom.com>
To: "Avengers Assemble!" <a...@sigma.net>
Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 8:16 PM
Subject: AML: Fwd: John Buscema

> :From Avenger "Keith R.A. DeCandido" <kr...@ix.netcom.com>:
>
> Some icky news:
>
> >Message: 24
> > Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2001 02:25:37 -0000
> > From: Gar...@webtv.net
> >Subject: John Buscema Very Ill
> >
> >Hello Group,
> >I just read that John Buscema is terminally ill with advanced stomach
> >cancer, I'm very sorry to report this. The following is from Comicart-
> >L:
> >
> >
> > On the Colan list an hour ago, Adreinne Colan informed us that
> >yesterday John Buscema went into the hospital for stomach cancer
> >surgery. When they got inside him, they found not a self contained
> >little problem, but a major one with hundreds of tumors. John and the
> >family decided that it is not operatable, and he will remain in the
> >hospital for 1-2 weeks of follow up. After that he will go home. No
> >estimate on how far along the cancer is, or how much longer he will be
> >with us.
> >cards and notes can be sent to his home:
> >
> >John Buscema
> >104 Oaklawn drive
> >Port Jefferson NY 11777

I hope he feels well in his remaining time. The Buscema-Palmer Avengers
art team was what got me into reading good comics.

[Brian Watson]

"DESSCRIBE1" <dessc...@aol.com> wrote in message
news:20010808164823...@mb-fm.aol.com...

> The following message was posted by John C. Baker on
> rec.arts.comics.marvel-universe:

> > > On the Colan list an hour ago, Adreinne Colan informed us that
> > >yesterday John Buscema went into the hospital for stomach cancer
> > >surgery. When they got inside him, they found not a self contained
> > >little problem, but a major one with hundreds of tumors. John and the
> > >family decided that it is not operatable, and he will remain in the
> > >hospital for 1-2 weeks of follow up. After that he will go home. No
> > >estimate on how far along the cancer is, or how much longer he will be
> > >with us.
> > >cards and notes can be sent to his home:
> > >
> > >John Buscema
> > >104 Oaklawn drive
> > >Port Jefferson NY 11777
>
> I hope he feels well in his remaining time. The Buscema-Palmer Avengers
> art team was what got me into reading good comics.

A very talented artist. One of those who prove the genre is not just kids'
stuff.

Is it me, or is is just weird that the notice of his unfortunate condition
turned up on the Colan list?

--
Brian