{"id":18223,"date":"2010-04-28T21:12:45","date_gmt":"2010-04-29T01:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=18223"},"modified":"2015-01-26T20:27:54","modified_gmt":"2015-01-27T01:27:54","slug":"bill-dubay-1948-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2010\/04\/28\/bill-dubay-1948-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill DuBay 1948-2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just found out today via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsfromme.com\/archives\/2010_04_27.html#018870\">Mark Evanier<\/a> that writer\/artist\/editor <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bill_DuBay\">Bill DuBay<\/a> died two weeks ago on April 15. I don&#8217;t think I ever met DuBay during my years as a comics pro, but I was certainly familiar with his work from my years as a comics fan.<\/p>\n<p>I devoured his writing and editing at Warren Publishing in the pages of <i>Creepy<\/i>, <i>Eerie<\/i>, and <i>Vampirella<\/i> in the &#8217;70s, but what I remember most (which I&#8217;m guessing probably wouldn&#8217;t have pleased him)  is a series of humorous strips he wrote and drew for the program books of Phil Seuling&#8217;s 1972 and 1973 New York Comic Art Conventions.  <\/p>\n<p>These two pages, starring DuBay himself, gave me a behind-the-scenes glimpse at the world of publishing and comics I had no idea I would eventually enter.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/BillDubay1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/BillDubay1-175x300.jpg\" alt=\"BillDubay1\" width=\"175\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-18224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/BillDubay1-175x300.jpg 175w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/BillDubay1-596x1024.jpg 596w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/BillDubay1.jpg 898w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 175px) 100vw, 175px\" \/><\/a><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/BillDubay2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/BillDubay2-191x300.jpg\" alt=\"BillDubay2\" width=\"191\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-18225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/BillDubay2-191x300.jpg 191w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/BillDubay2-652x1024.jpg 652w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/BillDubay2.jpg 917w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 191px) 100vw, 191px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And just in case you don&#8217;t recognize who that&#8217;s supposed to be on the right-hand side of the final two panels&#8212;that&#8217;s Warren Publishing&#8217;s Jim Warren.<\/p>\n<p>Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicsreporter.com\/index.php\/bill_dubay_1948_2010\/\"><i>The Comics Reporter<\/i><\/a> for more about Bill DuBay and his contributions to the world of comics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just found out today via Mark Evanier that writer\/artist\/editor Bill DuBay died two weeks ago on April 15. I don&#8217;t think I ever met DuBay during my years as a comics pro, but I was certainly familiar with his work from my years as a comics fan. I devoured his writing and editing at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[618,85],"class_list":["post-18223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bill-dubay","tag-obituaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18223"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18226,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18223\/revisions\/18226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}