{"id":1448,"date":"2008-02-12T01:04:16","date_gmt":"2008-02-12T06:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/archives\/1448"},"modified":"2008-02-12T01:04:16","modified_gmt":"2008-02-12T06:04:16","slug":"steve-gerber-rip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/archives\/1448","title":{"rendered":"Steve Gerber, R.I.P."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsfromme.com\/archives\/2008_02_11.html#014809\">Mark Evanier posts<\/a> the sad news that Steve Gerber passed away yesterday at age 60.   Among his many other works, Gerber of course co-created the vastly entertaining DESTROYER DUCK series with Kirby in the 1980s, as well as working on animation projects like THUNDARR together. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/archives\/21\">Destroyer Duck #1 [1982]<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/archives\/228\">Destroyer Duck #2 [1983]<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/archives\/310\">Destroyer Duck #3 [1983]<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/archives\/410\">Destroyer Duck #4 [1983]<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/archives\/529\">Destroyer Duck #5 [1983]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I had a few brief e-mail exchanges with Gerber over the last decade, and he was always very charming and helpful.  He was definitely one of the good ones, and he&#8217;ll be missed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Evanier posts the sad news that Steve Gerber passed away yesterday at age 60. Among his many other works, Gerber of course co-created the vastly entertaining DESTROYER DUCK series with Kirby in the 1980s, as well as working on animation projects like THUNDARR together. Destroyer Duck #1 [1982] Destroyer Duck #2 [1983] Destroyer Duck [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-admin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}