Comics Artist Dave Cockrum
I was at a store looking through some homeware when a feature on cartoonist David Cockrum came on the television in the store. I remember him from a while ago so I looked up his bio.
David Cockrum passed away on November 26, 2006 at the age of 63. He was a comic artist, and his most famous creations include Nightcrawler, Storm, and Colossus from X-Men.
Mr. Cockrum loved comics as a young boy, and always wanted to be a comic book artist. After serving six years in the navy, he found a job as a comic inker, and worked his way to his first drawing assignment, which was for the Legion of Super Heroes.
He moved to Marvel and worked on creating the new X-Men, which he continuously worked on until 1977. He quit in 1979, but freelanced for Marvel, where his art was featured for various covers.
In the 1980s, Mr. Cockrum created The Futurians, which started as a graphic novel, but soon became a series. Recently, there were talks about adapting it for the silver screen.
In the 1990s, he worked for Claypool Comics, contributing stories for the Elvira series. He also worked regularly on other Claypool Comics titles.
In 2004, Mr. Cockrum, who suffered from diabetes, became very sick. Fellow artists held a fundraiser auction for him, and thanks to the efforts from his friends in the industry, he was also compensated by Marvel for his part in the creation of X-Men.
After his death, characters named “David Cockrum” appear in X-Men titles (a novel and comic) as a tribute to the artist.
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