John Cassaday, Astonishing Comic Artist, Has Died

John Cassady, aggregate Eisner award-winning comics artist, has passed distant astatine the property of 52.

Said to person been admitted to the ICU astatine Mount Sinai West Hospital successful New York past week, Cassady’s sister, Robin, confirmed connected societal media yesterday that her “little bro John passed distant astatine 6:51pm Texas time. Please support maine and my ma successful your prayers.”

One of the astir salient comics artists of the 21st century, Cassady volition beryllium everlastingly remembered for his clip arsenic the creator on Astonishing X-Men. Together with writer Joss Whedon, Cassaday’s re-envisioning of the X-Men successful a post-New X-Men satellite from 2004 done to 2008 elevated Astonishing into 1 of Marvel’s champion books astatine the time, giving X-Fans galore unthinkable moments (especially with Cyclops, who Cassaday did an unthinkable occupation of showing conscionable however almighty Scott could beryllium erstwhile unleashed, similar successful his iconic panels of Cyclops leveling a Sentinel in Astonishing X-Men #8), arsenic good arsenic defining a caller look for Marvel’s mutants successful the mid-aughts. More recently, Cassaday relaunched Marvel’s Star Wars comics enactment alongside Jason Aaron successful January 2015, helping to reshape the then-newly-rebooted Star Wars canon arsenic helium helped picture the adventures of Luke, Leia, and Han betwixt the events of A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back.

Cassady’s prolific assemblage of enactment besides includes the likes of Captain America with Jeph Loeb and John Neiy Reiber, co-creating Planetary with Warren Ellis, I Am Legion with Fabien Nury and Desperadoes with Jeff Mariotte. Cassaday’s penning credits see enactment connected Hellboy: Weird Tales, Rocketeer Adventures, Bela Lugosi: Tales from the Grave, Little Nemo: Dream Another Dream, Union Jack and X-Men: Alpha Flight. Not conscionable constricted to comics, Cassady additionally directed an occurrence of the sci-fi series, Dollhouse, appeared arsenic an histrion successful the 2012 fearfulness movie House On the Hill, and besides served arsenic a conception creator connected Zack Snyder’s movie adaptation of Watchmen.

Beloved successful the industry, Cassady’s decease instantly inspired an outpouring of eulogies from immoderate of comic’s apical talent, including Mark Waid, Ben Templesmith, Scott Snyder, Declan Shalvey, Charles Soule, Heather Antos, Dean Haspiel, Jimmy Palmiotti, J.H. Williams III, Andy Khouri, and galore much writers and chap artists who were touched not conscionable by Cassaday’s work, but his kindness to the galore radical helium worked with crossed his clip successful comics. Check retired a fewer below.

John Cassaday. Oh gosh, this 1 is hitting hard.

You welcomed maine into comics erstwhile I was a cipher and new.

You mentored maine erstwhile I was learning to draw.

You inspired a generation.

May the Force beryllium with you. Always. pic.twitter.com/EYKnMnERUp

— Heather Antos 🔜 FanExpo Edmonton (@HeatherAntos) September 10, 2024

I spot the unspeakable quality is out. Rest successful bid John.

There’ll ne'er beryllium different John Cassaday. pic.twitter.com/RmPHLiu78o

— 𝗕𝗲𝗻 𝗧𝗲𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘀𝗺𝗶𝘁𝗵 (@Templesmith) September 10, 2024

Although I ne'er got the accidental to cognize him personally, the interaction of John Cassaday's enactment connected myself and the full manufacture is indelible. This is simply a tremendous nonaccomplishment to the comics community. pic.twitter.com/jw9TXk5Z2O

— Scott Snyder (@Ssnyder1835) September 10, 2024

John Cassaday was a once-in-ever talent. I’m truthful fortunate I got to enactment with him a spot present and there.

The worst happening astir making it enactment successful a originative tract is that you get to cognize geniuses and past you person to ticker them go.

RIP. pic.twitter.com/rKu3E5Eepm

— Charles Soule (@CharlesSoule) September 10, 2024

Our thoughts are with his household and friends astatine this time.

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