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Comics Artist John Cassaday, Planetary Co-Creator, Has Died Aged 52

Comics Artist John Cassaday, co-creator of Planetary and Astonishing X-Men, has died at the tragically young age of 52.

He began his career directing television news after attending film school, pivoting into comics while working in construction and, after some success for independent publishers, was initially championed by Mark Waid. He also found success in the larger French comics market, drawing Je suis légion by Fabien Nury from Les Humanoïdes Associés, that brought him a new "high art" appreciation. Mark Waid added, "as his publisher for a brief time at Humanoids, I had the great and now melancholy pleasure of watching magnificent pages, his best ever, come in slowly on his dream project, an unannounced creator-owned multimedia series that will now be his unfinished symphony."

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