R.I.P. Philip José Farmer

[Crazy1van]

February 25th:

Philip José Farmer passed away peacefully in his sleep this morning.

He will be missed greatly by his wife Bette, his children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, friends and countless fans around the world.

January 26, 1918 - February 25, 2009. R.I.P.

On a personal note, his writing was for me the primer needed to unlock a world only glimpsed in seperate bits and pieces before.  While the Universal Monsters showed that the horror movies shared a reality, Farmer showed that the Pulps also shared a reality, one that included the works of Poe, Lovecraft, Shelley, Stoker and countless others, as well as the motion picture King Kong.  His Wold Newton Universe is the playground in which I play with all my monster friends, from Dracula, Fu Manchu, and Cthulhu to Freddy, Pumpkinhead, and Hannible Lecter.  And I think he may have been the first person to use Forrest J Ackerman as a protagonist in a work of fiction, so we owe him a debt of thanks for that, if nothing else.

Ivan, not feeling very Crazy right now

[Inkfink]

I still have Tarzan Alive and Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life. I enjoyed how he tied literary, pulp, mystery and adventure characters intp a huge mythology. Farewell to another legend.

[MDG]

Farmer is one of my favorite writers ever. I always felt he was a lot like Jack Kirby--had an imagination that created too many ideas to do them all justice.

And, lest we forget, he used FJA as a major character in BLOWN!

[Street Worm]

Very Sad, though I kinda knew it was coming................

One of my all time favorites-

Thanks for the feast~