Comic Book Writer Robert L. Washington III Dead

[Jello Biafra]

Writer Robert L. Washington III, who with Dwayne McDuffie and John Paul Leon introduced Static in 1993, passed away Wednesday at Mount Sinai Queens in New York City after suffering multiple heart attacks. He was 47.

Although perhaps best known for co-writing the first 18 issue of Static, he also worked on Shadow Cabinet for Milestone Comics, Extreme Justice for DC Comics, Timewalker for Valiant, and Ninjak for Acclaim.

However, Washington, like many other creators, had difficulty finding work in the industry following the mid-1990s comics implosion. He’d lately been employed sporadically by a call center and catalog warehouse.

Washington had been homeless a few times, and had received assistance from The Hero Initiative with rent and food, which he recounted in his final work — a one-page autobiographical strip he contributed to Hero Comics 2012 (below), the charity comic released last week to help raise money for the group.

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That's messed up, I didn't know about him being homeless and not being able to find work in comics. With all of the shytty writers that are constantly being given shot after shot I find it amazing that dude was kicked to the curb. His writing on the original Static comic was really good.

 

[Bud Bundy]

sucks

R.I. P

 

[Stress Welker]

47 is far too young to be dieing from a heart attack.

R.I.P.

 

[Jacksonville Swaguar]

lol

 

[Majestyx]

there are some crazy stories involving black comic artist/creators from the 90's not getting work, or getting black balled. shyt is lame as fukk. one of my favorite artis from x factor was a black dude, last i heard dude a security guard now

 

[Jello Biafra]

there are some crazy stories involving black comic artist/creators from the 90's not getting work, or getting black balled. shyt is lame as fukk. one of my favorite artis from x factor was a black dude, last i heard dude a security guard now

You talking about Larry Stroman? I always liked his stuff, it was different from what the rest of marvel looked like at the time.
And one of the best writers from that period was Christopher Priest and he isn't even in the business anymore.

 

[Majestyx]

You talking about Larry Stroman? I always liked his stuff, it was different from what the rest of marvel looked like at the time.
And one of the best writers from that period was Christopher Priest and he isn't even in the business anymore.

yeah i didnt think anybody would know his name, so i didnt even bother with it.

 

[MenacingMonk]

Dwayne McDuffie passed on, too. Dude was a hand in Batman TAS, Batman Beyond and the JL/JLU show. I had no idea until I copped the DOOM BR and it had a doc about him.

 

[Bud Bundy]

You talking about Larry Stroman? I always liked his stuff, it was different from what the rest of marvel looked like at the time.
And one of the best writers from that period was Christopher Priest and he isn't even in the business anymore.

priest got played something serious.

only mcDuffie made it through(as far as black writes go).