Cody White
Glenn Fabry, 57, announced on Facebook on Friday that he was diagnosed with lung cancer:
He once again took to social media Tuesday to update us on his treatment:
Fabry, who began his career in 1985 at 2000 AD, was a member of the group of creative minds often called the “British Invasion”. Fellow “invader” Grant Morrison talks about the group, including Fabry, in his book Supergods: What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us About Being Human:
“And so we arrived in our teens and twenties, in our leather jackets and Chelsea boots, with our crepe-soled brothel creepers and skinhead Ben Shermans, metal tattoos, and infected piercings. We brought to bear on the ongoing American superhero discourse the invigorating influence of alternative lifestyles, punk rock, fringe theater, and tight black jeans. We rolled up in anarchist hordes, in rowdy busloads, drinking the bars dry, munching on our hosts’ buttocks (artist Glenn Fabry drunkenly assaulted editor Karen Berger”s glutes with his molars), and swearing in a dozen or more baffling regional accents. The Americans expected us to be brilliant punks and, eager to please our masters, we sensitive, artistic boys did our best to live up to our hype.”
And live up to the hype they did. Fabry would team up with Garth Ennis to provide covers for Ennis’ groundbreaking run on Hellblazer, an effort that would earn Fabry the 1995 Eisner Award for “Best Cover Artist”.
Fabry would again team up with Ennis between 1995 and 2000 on the runaway hit series Preacher, of which Fabry would provide every cover, including the one-shots and the Saint of Killers mini-series.
I speak for everybody at Comic Watch when I say we wish our best for Glenn during this trying and difficult moment in his wonderful life. Stay strong, old friend.