R.I.P CELEBRITY DEATHS(NON WRESTLING) 2018

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Batman Artist Norm Breyfogle Died on Monday, Aged 58

Norm Breyfogle, comic book artist, worked solidly drawing Batman comic books for DC from 1987 to 1995 making a major impact on the character. But he also co-created Prime for Malibu’s Ultraverse and owned his own character Metaphysique.

Norm first had fan art published when he was 17 in Batman Family and, after working as a draftsman and technical illustrator, including a Space Shuttle training manual, he was picked up in 1984 by DC Comics’ New Talent Showcase.

He also worked on American Flagg for First Comics, as well as a Captain America story in Marvel Fanfare before his first monthly gig on Whisper for First Comics from 1986–1987.

It was then that he started drawing Detective Comics, co-creating The Ventriloquist and Scarface with Alan Grant in their first story together. He drew the Robin title and then launched Batman: Shadow of the Bat in 1992 with Grant, creating three Jeremiah Arkham, Mr. Zsasz, and Amygdala as well as the classics Batman: Holy Terror and Batman: Birth of the Demon.

He was one of the Ultraverse founders at Marvel, co-creating their most popular title, Prime. After another stint with DC Comics, he would find other work illustrating children’s books, working in advertising, writing his own prose and poetry, and working for smaller publishers with Of Bitter Souls and The Danger’s Dozen, before withing for Archie Comics.

He reteamed with Alan Grant for DC Retroactive: Batman – The ’90s in 2011 and followed that with DC’s Batman Beyond Unlimited digital comic series. Norm Breyfogle suffered a stroke in 2014 and there were a number of fundraising appeals to help pay for his care, which also prompted DC Comics to reprint his earlier Batman work as Legends of the Dark Knight: Norm Breyfogle hardcover volumes, the second of which is due to be published in November.

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John Cunliffe aged 85 created children's television programmes "Postman Pat" & "Rosie and Jim"

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Kirin Kiki Dies: Veteran Japanese Actress And ‘Shoplifters’ Star Was 75

Award-winning trailblazing Japanese actress Kirin Kiki died on Sept. 15. Kiki recently appeared in Shoplifters and had been fighting cancer since being diagnosed in 2004, but the official cause of her death has yet to be announced. She was 75.

iki was born Keiko Nakatani in Tokyo in 1943. She started her acting career in the ’60s under the name Yuki Chihi in a theater troupe, where she met actor Shin Kishida. They would marry and then later divorce in 1968. In 1973, she married musician Yuya Uchida and they had a daughter Yayako.

She would go on to find success in TV in shows such as Shichinin no Mago (Seven Grandchildren) as well as Terauchi Kantaro Ikka (Kantaro Terauchi Family) and Jikandesuyo (It’s Time).

On the film side, she starred in Tokyo Tawa: Okan to Boku to Tokidoki Oton (Tokyo Tower: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad) and Chronicle of My Mother. The two roles would earn her a Japan Academy Best Actress Award.

Her other credits include Hirokazu Kore-eda’s I Wish in which she starred with her granddaughter Kyara Uchida. She also starred in Naomi Kawase’s Sweet Bean, which competed in the Un Certain Regard at Cannes in 2015.

She would continue to collaborate with Kore-eda’s, appearing in Still Walking in 2008 as well as Cannes Jury prize winner Like Father, Like Son in 2013. She also starred in My Little Sister (2015) and After the Storm (2016). She also starred in the aforementioned Kore-eda pic Shoplifters as the matriarch of an unconventional family of petty thieves. The film went on to be the Palm d’Or winner at Cannes.

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Marty Balin, Jefferson Airplane singer and co-founder, dead at 76

Marty Balin, whose tenor voice provided hits for the ’60s psychedelic rock band Jefferson Airplane, has died, his publicist and family said in a statement. Balin was 76.

The statement did not mention a cause of death for the co-founder of the band. He also starred with its successor, Jefferson Starship. His wife, Susan Joy Balin, was by his side when he died Thursday.

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Been listening to White Rabbit a lot recently. RIP.

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Will Vinton, Oscar winner and pioneering Portland animator, dies at age 70

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Good old Noid. RIP.

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HERSHEL FROM 'THE WALKING DEAD'SCOTT WILSON DIES AT 76

Scott Wilson -- a veteran actor with more than 50 movie credits, but best known recently for his role as Hershel Greene on "The Walking Dead" -- has died ... TMZ has learned.

Scott's rep, Dominic Mancini, tells us he died due to complications from leukemia. Mancini says Wilson was "a national treasure, a calm voice, and a gentle spirit to everyone who came in contact with him." We're told he passed away peacefully at his home in L.A.

It was recently revealed by 'TWD' showrunner Angela Kang at the show's panel at New York Comic-Con that Scott -- along with former stars Sonequa Martin-Green and Jon Bernthal -- would be returning for the upcoming ninth season, which premieres Sunday.

Wilson's Hollywood career began in 1967 when he landed a role in the classic film, "In the Heat of the Night." He went on to star in "In Cold Blood" and appear in several other legendary movies like "The Great Gatsby" and "Dead Man Walking."

Scott earned a Golden Globe nom for Best Supporting Actor for playing Capt. Billy Cupshaw in the 1980 film, "The Ninth Configuration."

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John Gagliardi, who won more games than any other college football coach with his unconventional methods at a small Minnesota school, has died. He was 91.

St. John's University says Gagliardi (pronounced guh-LAHR'-dee) died Sunday morning. A cause of death was not immediately known.

Gagliardi retired in 2012 after a record 64 seasons as a head coach, with 60 of those at St. John's, an all-male Catholic school in Collegeville, Minnesota, that competes at the NCAA's non-scholarship Division III level.

Gagliardi finished with 489 wins, 138 losses and 11 ties, winning four national championships with the Johnnies. He drew national attention to a school with fewer than 2,000 students for his laid-back approaches to the sport like short practices and a policy of not cutting any players from the roster.