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Many people only know Howard the Duck from the cheesy 80′s movie. That’s a shame because Howard has his origins in in the comics, where he was a wise-assed, cigar-smoking, pantsless satire of Donald Duck, trained in the deadly art of Quak Fu. This is the incarnation that Steve Gerber had in mind when he created Howard in 1973.
Gerber died Sunday in a Las Vegas hospital after a long battle with lung disease. Gerber created Howard while working at Marvel Comics, and despite several rocky stretches with the company, worked on Howard for more than a decade. He wasn’t a big fan of the movie though, though that’s hardly a surprise, since I’m not sure anyone over the age of 12 actually liked the movie. I was the object of scorn and ridicule for suggesting it for a movie night in college.
Gerber’s friend Mark Evanier wrote an excellent eulogy.
Via BoingBoing
