Legion World Forums LEGION OUTPOST Mission Monitor Board RIP Steve Lightle

I was thinking of something official from DC, but putting together some sort of fan creation might be fun too.

Yay! Please PM me whatever ideas you have, and let's see where we go from there!

Oh yeah, one that involved some characters that were introduced on his watch, or that he specifically created, like Tellus or Mentalla or Energy Boy or Myg (from a bit later) could be a neat tribute.

A GoFundMe for Steve's family.

I tweeted a link to Colleen Doran. A number of other comic pros have donated. Levitz sent $1000.

I contributed. I see some other familiar names have, as well.

I feel bad that I never supported his digital work. I've just never been into digital comics, and I suppose I was hoping he'd eventually publish in print.

At least, I'm helping his family in some small way in their time of need.

I don't know if Steve Lightle's style hits my buttons generally when it comes to sequential art, but I always loved his cover art and I feel like Tellus could really have been a breakout character if other creators had used Lightle's creator notes - the idea that his pods change colour as communication/mode of expression was brilliant and probably too far ahead of colouring techniques at the time to have been taken on and normalised by any other artists who didn't have a vested interest in the character.

I just tried to donate but got a message saying that the organizer has disabled the donate feature.....
Will keep trying.

I believe they actually closed it down this afternoon. They'd raised almost twice the goal of $5000 last time I checked.

I hope it's enough. Final expenses can be high. I was pleased to see it was going well over and wouldn't have minded seeing it continue.

Yeah, I was honestly a bit surprised to see the goal set so low. Apparently the family asked for it to be shut down, though, so...

That's awesome that they raised so much so quickly!

I honestly don't recall if I ever meet him in person or interacted much with him online but he seemed like a really great guy from being FB friends with him over the years. Always enjoyed his art since I first discovered it too. It's a real shame to lose yet good person due to the awfulness of Covid-19. He will be missed & my deepest condolences to his family / friends / fans / colleagues.

Just saw this, I guess I don't visit this forum frequently. What a terrible loss.