RIP harry horse, cartoonist, illustrator and author of "drowned god"

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not sure how many people will know the name, but he was a fascinating man whose children's books were beautiful; whose political cartoons were scabrous; and whose computer game was, apparently, a big hit with conspiracy theorists.

a heartbreaking story: cartoonist and wife found dead in home.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 11 January 2007 11:46 (eighteen years ago)

RIP.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 11 January 2007 19:52 (eighteen years ago)

it truly is a heartbreaking story. he used to be the front man of a 'cajun punk' band called swamptrash in the late 80's who were a bit of a sensation in edinburgh and gave me many a great, drunken night's entertainment. rest in peace harry.

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:21 (eighteen years ago)

Oh no, that's horribly sad! We're just getting into his kids' books in our house too, and yes, very beautiful books indeed.

― NickB (NickB), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:40 (eighteen years ago)

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Mate of Mark Burgess of the Chameleons it would seem.

― NickB (NickB), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:46 (eighteen years ago)

Sort of weird reading 'Little Rabbit Goes to School' to my two year old over the weekend. It's one of Bill's major favourites, and it gets read a whole heck of a lot in our house (and not just by virtue of it *not* being a Thomas the Tank Engine story). In fact, we'd just ordered a bunch of more Harry Horse books from Amazon last week for his 3rd birthday. Really sad sitting reading this story to a child and trying to share the warmth and joy but just feeling majorly bummed out. Hmmm. Anyhow, obit in the Independent:
http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article2149763.ece

― NickB (NickB), Monday, 15 January 2007 12:18 (eighteen years ago)

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