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339:––as if they all deserved commensurate attention (they do). The idea was––and still is––that it's all in the mix, and to erect barriers between, say, comics and music, to ignore the noise from any part of the system, is counterproductive and just plain stupid. Most of the artists and writers I know listen to and take inspiration from music while they work. Most of the musicians I know read comics and get off on the imagery. There's an intense, cross-cultural/media conversation going on, and all you have to do to hear it is stop listening selectively." 29: 108: 97: 124:(September 29, 1952 – May 4, 1997) was an American author, critic and editor, mainly in the areas of fantasy and science fiction. During the last four years of his life he was an editor for DC Comics' 981: 872: 538: 1061: 1056: 347:, Stathis began having headaches that kept him from working. He died of respiratory failure ten months after being diagnosed with a 443: 570: 372: 1041: 1046: 87: 182:
magazine; during the late 1970s and early 1980s, he also wrote a monthly column on contemporary popular music for
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In writing and editing, Stathis took a prismatic approach, noting popular culture linkages:
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Lou Stathis in his New York City rooftop apartment, summer 1986. Photo by Jeff Schalles.
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Anderson, Paul M. (August 1997). "Vertigo Editor Stathis Succumbs to Cancer".
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International Horror Guild Award

Kyle Baker

Heavy Metal
Vertigo
Preacher
Doom Patrol
Industrial Gothic
Peter Kuper
Heavy Metal
Ted White
Fantastic
Gallery
Ace Books
High Times
Matt Howarth
Those Annoying Post Bros
Vortex Comics
Olivia De Berardinis
Rick Geary
Peter Kuper
Arthur Suydam
Tom Waits
Captain Beefheart
The Residents
Sun Ra
Voivod
Ice Cube

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