Peter Benno Gillis, an acclaimed longtime Marvel Comics writer in the 1970s and 1980s, best known for creating the series, Strikefore: Morituri, with artist Brent Anderson, has passed away at the age of 71, according to his brother, Rob Gillis, on social media, who wrote:
Peter B. Gillis was a graduate student in the late 1970s studying medival German literature, when he found himself trapped in, as he described to Kurt Anthong Krug, “the Beckett-like plains of All But Dissertation.” He decided to take a leave of absence from his graduate studies, telling Krug, “I didn’t exactly quit; I just started devoting less time to the damn thesis and more time to funny books.” He began pitching scripts to Marvel, and eventually, he was hired to write Captain America #224 in 1978…
Gillis briefly served as the Editorial Director at New Media Publishing, one of the early independent comic book distributors in the comic book direct market, in 1980, leaving in 1981.
Peter Benno Gillis, an acclaimed longtime Marvel Comics writer in the 1970s and 1980s, best known for creating the series, Strikefore: Morituri, with artist Brent Anderson, has passed away at the age of 71, according to his brother, Rob Gillis, on social media, who wrote:
Peter B. Gillis was a graduate student in the late 1970s studying medival German literature, when he found himself trapped in, as he described to Kurt Anthong Krug, “the Beckett-like plains of All But Dissertation.” He decided to take a leave of absence from his graduate studies, telling Krug, “I didn’t exactly quit; I just started devoting less time to the damn thesis and more time to funny books.” He began pitching scripts to Marvel, and eventually, he was hired to write Captain America #224 in 1978…
Gillis briefly served as the Editorial Director at New Media Publishing, one of the early independent comic book distributors in the comic book direct market, in 1980, leaving in 1981.
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