Diane Michelangeli - An Unsung Hero
Sep. 8th, 2007 10:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dewlineIf there's ever a Maple Leaf flag planted on Mars, part of the work that will have made it happen will be that of Diane Michelangeli.
I must admit to not hearing or reading much of her work during her lifetime, and now that life has ended all too soon. According to the CBC reports, it was brain tumours that finally got her. At 45.
45.
As with Mike Wieringo in comic books in recent days, that too is too damned soon.
Ladies, gentlemen and respected others: we have been robbed.
Again.
Dr. Michelangeli, I'm sorry I never got to meet you. It would have been cool.
I must admit to not hearing or reading much of her work during her lifetime, and now that life has ended all too soon. According to the CBC reports, it was brain tumours that finally got her. At 45.
45.
As with Mike Wieringo in comic books in recent days, that too is too damned soon.
Ladies, gentlemen and respected others: we have been robbed.
Again.
Dr. Michelangeli, I'm sorry I never got to meet you. It would have been cool.
