From: [t--g] at [netcom.com] (Tom Galloway)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.info,rec.arts.comics.misc,rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: R.I.P. Jack Berrill, creator of Gil Thorp
Date: Sun, 17 Mar 96 04:23:25 GMT

According to an obituary in the Boston Globe, Jack Berrill, creator of the
38 year old comic strip Gil Thorp, died Thursday of cancer. According to
a Tribune Media spokesperson, the 65 newspaper syndicated strip will continue
without interruption. In recent years, other artists had been doing the art
while Berrill did the plots and dialogue.

Personally, Gil Thorp was one of the first strips I read, due to it being
carried in the Charlotte Observer. I've long enjoyed the strip, and have
long considered it to be a generally underrated continuity strip. It's quite
good, and the pacing of the stories was excellent.

tyg   [t--g] at [netcom.com]