No-one seems to have forwarded this yet, so I am taking it upon myself to do so.
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To: sentinelangst@yahoogroups.com Message-ID: 9lfu9h+3lma@eGroups.com User-Agent: eGroups-EW/0.82 X-Mailer: eGroups Message Poster From: lrhbalzer@yahoo.com Delivered-To: mailing list sentinelangst@yahoogroups.com Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 07:55:29 -0000 Reply-To: sentinelangst@yahoogroups.com Subject: [SA] Fan Artist Dies
Hi,
I just got some bad news, that my dear friend and former roommate, Warren Oddsson, died last night of a heart attack. He was 43.
If any of you have any of my fanzines, Warren was responsible for the awesome art you see there on the cover and throughout the fanzines.
On my website at: http://victorian.fortunecity.com/literary/196/ there is a page called "Fan Art". I have a few of Warren's pictures up, and now I think I'll add a lot in the next few weeks. For years his art was shown at MediaWest in the artshow (the years I was good and remembered to send it on time) or shown at other fan convention artshows. Many fans have t-shirts of Sentinel, Highlander, Trek, Starsky and Hutch, and the other myriad of fandoms he was in.
For those of you who visited my former house during a visit to Vancouver, you would have met Warren, a very tall -- 6 foot, 5 inch -- blond Viking who besides doing fan art, also designed the logo for a Canadian astronaunt on a NASA space flight, and was flown to Florida for the lift off, and then Houston Control for the event.
I'm still a little in shock. I spent the evening on the phone calling his friends and letting them know. Warren lived with my husband and I for two years, then a few years later, lived with Cathy, Shane, and I for four years. We went to high school together, so for thirty years he's been a part of my life.
Please pass this email on to any other fan groups. Warren was especially known in Classic Trek, Sentinel, Dr Who, and Man from UNCLE, but he also did art for Starsky & Hutch (3 fanzines covers), Professionals (several covers), Highlander (many covers), also covers for fanzines for Red Dwarf, James Bond, I Spy, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Kung Fu:TLC, Robin of Sherwood, Blake's 7, Babylon Five, Forever Knight, Xena, Hercules, Star Trek Voyager, Prisoner, Star Wars, Wild Wild West... and others I've forgotten off the top of my head. A few days ago, I just sent off a package to Mysti Frank, so she could sell his prints on her website and at conventions, as I get requests for the prints still. His death yesterday was a blow to us all here. Now, I'll be donating his profits to the Canadian Epilepsy Foundation.
Please say a prayer for his parents, his brother and sister and their families, as well as his many friends in the fan community.
Thanks.
Lois lrhbalzer@yahoo.com
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