Comics artist John Severin has died, according to a statement from the family.
The Marvel and EC artist, known for titles including “Two-Fisted Tales” and “The
Incredible Hulk” was 90. Severin was also a major contributor to “Cracked” and
“MAD.” The New Jersey-born artist died at his Denver, Colorado home on Sunday.
John Severin illustrated Marvel titles including
"Sub-Mariner." Marvel Comics. Former Marvel Comics chairman and president
Stan Lee spoke about Severin in a statement from the family released at
www.comicsbeat.com. “He had an art style that was uniquely and
distinctly his own,” Lee said. “The minute you looked at his artwork you knew
you were looking at a John Severin illustration; it could be no one else.
Besides his inimitable style, there was a feeling of total authenticity to
whatever he drew, whether it was a Western, a crime story, a superhero saga or a
science fiction yarn. Not only was his penciling the very finest, but his
inking, too, had a distinctive Severin touch that made every strip he rendered
stand out like a winner.” In a more than 60-year career, Severin
illustrated comics for many of the major publishers. He was one of the five
cartoonists who founded “MAD,” and illustrated war comics including “Two Fisted
Tales” and “Frontline Combat” for EC Comics. For Marvel, Severin worked
as both a penciler and inker. Titles included “The Incredible Hulk,” “The
Sub-Mariner” and “Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandoes.” Read
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Drummer with Finnish monster rock group Lordi dies(AFP) –HELSINKI —
Tonmi Lillman, the drummer with Finnish monster rock ensemble Lordi, which won the Eurovision song contest six years ago, has died at the age of 38, the group
said Wednesday."Our dear friend and band mate, 'Otus' Tonmi Lillman, has
sadly passed away," a brief statement on the group's website said, but gave no
details on the cause of his death.Lillman, whose Finnish nickname "Otus"
means "beast" or "creature," joined Lordi in 2010, four years after the heavy
metal band put Finland on Europe's musical map by sweeping the Eurovision with
their stage pyrotechnics, gruesome monster costumes and catchy anthem "Hard Rock Hallelujah".Lordi won the 2006 competition with 292 points, a record at
the time, giving Finland its first Eurovision win and confirming their
popularity across the region in a competition that normally sees states voting
for their closest geographical neighbours.Lillman, who officially
changed his name from "Tommi" to "Tonmi" in 2004, grew up in Kouvola, in
southeastern Finland, and later moved to Helsinki.He reportedly received
his first drum kit at the age of nine and began performing when he was
14.An accomplished musician who had mastered the keyboards and guitar in
addition to drums and bass guitar, Lillman also performed with other Finnish
musical outfits such as Ajattara, To/Die/For, Sinergy and Vanguard.Apart
from his career with Lordi, Lillman backed numerous other groups and artists as
a studio musician, was a talented graphic artist, and taught drumming and
digital recording at the Kouvola Musical Conservatory.

Marion Mathie-Published Tuesday 14 February 2012 at 12:07 by Richard
Anthony BakerIn a long and varied career as a television actress, Marion
Mathie saved the best to last, playing She Who Must Be Obeyed, the fearsome wife
of the aging barrister, Horace Rumpole, in John Mortimer’s Rumpole of the Bailey
(1987-1992). But her career was not purely devoted to television.Early
on, she appeared in theatres all over Britain - she was a member of the rep
company at Hornchurch in Essex and she turned her hand to two pantomimes at the Blackpool Opera House in 1953 and 1954.She made her television debut in
1956 in an adaptation of David Copperfield. Then came Giles Cooper’s comedy,
Liberty Hall (1958), No Love for Vicky (1962) and Roald Dahl’s Taste (1967), in
which she worked alongside Donald Pleasence and Leonard Rossiter.More
prestigious work came in the 1980s. She played the matron in the Arthur Lowe
sitcom, AJ Wentworth BA (1982), based on HF Ellis’ fictional diaries by a maths
teacher in a boys’ preparatory school. In 1985-86, she portrayed one of the
cultural snobs in Mapp and Lucia, adapted from EF Benson’s stories of life in
the seaside town of Tilling.She took over the role of Hilda Rumpole
after the original actress, Peggy Thorpe-Bates, retired through ill health.
Rumpole enjoyed being what he termed “an Old Bailey hack”. It was Hilda who had ambitions for him, urging him to try to be made a QC or a circuit judge. The
Stage praised her for her “menacing authority” in the role. Marion Mathie, who was born on February 6, 1925, died on January 20, aged 86. She is survived by her daughter, Martine. Her husband, the Old Vic actor, John Humphry,
whom she married in 1963, and her son, Christopher, predeceased her.http://www.thestage.co.uk/features/obituaries/feature.php/35242/marion-mathie

Chikage Awashima (born Keiko Nakagawa in Tokyo, 24 February 1924 – 16 February
2012) is a Japanese actress who has been in films since the 1950s.She
died on February 16, 2012. FilmographyTenya wanya (1950)
Early Summer (1951) Nami (1951) An Inlet of Muddy Water (1953)
Early Spring (1956) (残菊物語 Zangiku monogatari) (1956) The Loyal 47
Ronin (忠臣蔵 Chūshingura) (1958) Ô-oku emaki (1968) Kigeki ekimae kazan
(1968) Kigeki hyakkuten manten (1976) Kono ko wo nokoshite (1983)
Natsu no niwa (1994) Daiteiden no yoru ni (2005) Imo tako nankin
(2006)