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A passing. Rest well Jim.
11 years ago
I briefly put up a journal the other day, but took it down until I got confirmation. It seems that Jim,
creator of
skunkworks has passed. In the past few months I've been Silent on the kickstarter
front because of this. He and his mother had requested that I keep things hush hush. as his health
started to get worse... Their was hope he'd get better, but as time went on it just wasn't getting
good for him.
While I never knew him in person, I was always a fan, and talked to him for many years on the
internet, and I was very excited when he wanted to Join Angry Viking Press in 2010.
We had many plans for Skunkedworks, Caterwaul Inc. and Penance, as comic series,
and even animated short ideas up until the past few weeks.
The kicstarter wasn't just to help promote Angry Viking Press, in big part it was to help
Jim get his work out to a much larger audience, and if things went well help with and future
assistance he may have needed. At the time when I started the kickstarter he was not
in best form in his words, but he was still doing good enough, and if you followed him here
and on Inkbunny you saw his regular posts of art and journals. From what hes told me, and
eventually from his mother, he kept trying to get as much art out as he could. He was
fighting what his body was doing to him to help the fans.
As he got worse he told me not to tell you, his fans about his situation until after he passed.
In part as he didn't want people to worry, or to harass me for information, and from what I
hear from other sources... In part that some people where just being terrible people, saying
that he was faking and other not nice things. His friends and family didn't need 2nd and 3rd
hand vitriol coming from the net so I kept my word and said nothing until I knew for sure.
It caused me a big of a depression all last month to keep that secret, as my aunt is too going
through the same situation, and reminded me of my health issues that I got from the chemicals
at my current job over the past 3 years... As a person who loves to help as many people as
I can, It hurts when you can't do anything.
For those of you who helped support us and Jim in the kickstarter, we will be working at
refunding you for the Commissions. For those of you who wanted his books and bed sheets
James had told me a few of his friends where inking his missing pages in the book, and the
Skunkworks girls bed pillows. They will be made available to all the kickstarter backers that
ordered them, and then in limited amounts after his passing, as per his request.
I will give more information as I know it, but as of now this is all that I know.
I want to thank those of you who supported James, with the kickstarter and just him in general over the years.
Thank you Jim for bringing 3 crazy girls and their overworked mom to life with your pen and paper.
- Jason.
creator of
skunkworks has passed. In the past few months I've been Silent on the kickstarterfront because of this. He and his mother had requested that I keep things hush hush. as his health
started to get worse... Their was hope he'd get better, but as time went on it just wasn't getting
good for him.
While I never knew him in person, I was always a fan, and talked to him for many years on the
internet, and I was very excited when he wanted to Join Angry Viking Press in 2010.
We had many plans for Skunkedworks, Caterwaul Inc. and Penance, as comic series,
and even animated short ideas up until the past few weeks.
The kicstarter wasn't just to help promote Angry Viking Press, in big part it was to help
Jim get his work out to a much larger audience, and if things went well help with and future
assistance he may have needed. At the time when I started the kickstarter he was not
in best form in his words, but he was still doing good enough, and if you followed him here
and on Inkbunny you saw his regular posts of art and journals. From what hes told me, and
eventually from his mother, he kept trying to get as much art out as he could. He was
fighting what his body was doing to him to help the fans.
As he got worse he told me not to tell you, his fans about his situation until after he passed.
In part as he didn't want people to worry, or to harass me for information, and from what I
hear from other sources... In part that some people where just being terrible people, saying
that he was faking and other not nice things. His friends and family didn't need 2nd and 3rd
hand vitriol coming from the net so I kept my word and said nothing until I knew for sure.
It caused me a big of a depression all last month to keep that secret, as my aunt is too going
through the same situation, and reminded me of my health issues that I got from the chemicals
at my current job over the past 3 years... As a person who loves to help as many people as
I can, It hurts when you can't do anything.
For those of you who helped support us and Jim in the kickstarter, we will be working at
refunding you for the Commissions. For those of you who wanted his books and bed sheets
James had told me a few of his friends where inking his missing pages in the book, and the
Skunkworks girls bed pillows. They will be made available to all the kickstarter backers that
ordered them, and then in limited amounts after his passing, as per his request.
I will give more information as I know it, but as of now this is all that I know.
I want to thank those of you who supported James, with the kickstarter and just him in general over the years.
Thank you Jim for bringing 3 crazy girls and their overworked mom to life with your pen and paper.
- Jason.
Gospeed Jim :/
It was an unfortunate inevitability given his health problems over the years. I like to think that people like yourself made his life a full and appreciated one, short though it was.
My constant concern leading up to this was what would come of his art; what he's shared, what he had yet to, and what he had in the works. This post also lends me comfort in the knowledge that people are carrying on his work. Hopefully his sketches and scraps will find their way to all of his fans so that we may still feel like hes gifting us with his talent even in death. Hopefully he can live on.