Rest In Play - 2020 - 2029

Recruited to be an actor by Laurence Olivier, he was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, earned two Tony nominations and appeared in a pair of Billy Wilder films.   

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It is with heavy hearts that we share the passing of our dear colleague and friend, Lori Rubin, a cherished member of the Adventure Media & Events family who served as our Controller for more than a d...ecade.Show more

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The owner of beloved independent toy store Howley’s Toymaster passed away after a battle with Lewy Body Dementia. Phil started work on Weymouth beach when he was 14, staying with extended family be...fore his parents moved to the south coast.Show more

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Zoe Bamsey was born on July 27, 1971 and passed away on January 29, 2025 at the age of 53. Most recently, Zoe was the head of animation development at BBC Studios Kids and Family, but she began her ca...reer 30 years ago as a programming director at Disney Channel in the UK. She spent 13 years there before moving to Coolabi Group as director of development. There, she was involved with the reboot of the classic kids' series Clangers. Zoe continued working on Clangers when she moved to animation prodco Factory in 2017 as chief content officer, and a few years later in 2021, she joined BBC Studios Kids and Family.Show more

Brian Griffin was born in the early 1930s and passed away in February 2025. Former managing director of Hamleys, Brian was responsible for launching iconic toy ranges such as Paddington Bear and suppo...rting growing British companies like Hestair Kiddicraft. He was known to have been a wonderful, caring boss, treating all of his Hamleys employees like family. According to Dawn Allan, his former press officer, he was an inspiring figurehead and hugely well-liked and respected by his employees and toy companies.Show more

Viktor Antonov, a Bulgarian artist best known for his work on the video games Half-Life 2 and Dishonored, was born in 1972 and passed away in February 2025. After spending his childhood in Sofia, B...ulgaria, Viktor immigrated to Paris at age 17 and then to the United States, where he started working at Valve Corporation in Seattle. In 2010, Antonov wrote and designed the graphic novel The Colony: A Structure Celebrating the Triumphs of Technology, a magic realist narrative with his own accompanying visuals. Later in his career, after working on Half-Life 2 with Valve Corporation, he moved to Lyon, where he worked at Arkane Studios where he worked on Dishonored. He then became a design supervisor for Zenimaz Media.Show more

Turtel Onli was born on January 25, 1952 and passed away on January 15, 2025 at the age of 72. Turtel attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he received both a Bachelor of Fine ...Arts and a Master of Arts in Art Therapy. In 1970, Turtel founded the Black Arts Guild, which featured touring art exhibitions and published work by its members. In 1974, in conjunction with BAG, he published Funk Book and a series of greeting cards. In 1980, he co-published a zine called PAPER with the Osun Center of the Arts. In the early 1980s he created five issues of another early comics zine, Future Funk. Aside from these works, Turtel has illustrated for Playboy Magazine, Chicago Magazine, Avant Garde Magazine, McDonald's, Motown Productions, holt, Rinehart & Winston, MODE magazine, and Paris Metro Magazine. Turtel has also been a visiting artist at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He worked as an art therapist fro 1984 - 1989 with young people in Chicago's Robert Taylor homes, and as an art instructor in the Chicago Public Schools. He's taught at Columbia College Chiago and Harold Washington College as well. He is known for coining the term "Rhythmism" to define and interpret his stylizations, which fuse both primitive and futuristic concepts. Turtel was also very involved in the comics world. Throughout his career, he's created Afrocentric Rhythmistic-powered characters that represent his belief in the ideal of the powerful defending the weak. In 1993, he spearheaded the inaugural Black Age of Comics convention at the Southside Community Arts Center in Chicago, where it was held for three years. Since then, it's been held in Atlanta, Los Angeles, Detroit, and Philadelphia. He received the Glyph Comics Awards Pioneer Award in 2006 for bringing positive, diverse images to the world of graphic novels and comic books.Show more

Howard Morrison was born in 1932 and passed away in 2025 at the age of 92. Howard was an inventor at heart, and his passion for creating as a means of problem solving began at a young age, when he f...ound himself in need of transportation and built a motorcycle from salvaged parts. Throughout his life, he invented many successful toys, including Simon, the light and sound memory game, the Mickey Mouse telephone, and other iconic games and elements of other toys and games. Howard was inducted into the Toy Industry Association Hall of Fame in 1998, and received a Toy and Game Inventor Excellence Lifetime Achievement Award in 2013.Show more

John Hales, co-founder of Golden bear Toys, passed away at the age of 85 in January 2025. John founded Golden Bear on February 12th, 1979 with his business partner Christine Nicholls. John did a l...ot throughout his career, including launching the Teletubbies toy range, which one Toy of the Year in 1997. He also received a lifetime achievement award from the British Toy & Hobby Association. John was also very active in the horse racing world, known as one of the leading British-based jumps owners of the last 40 years. He's owned many of the award-winning horses of the years, including his first winner in 1993, One Man, and 2012 Grand National winner Neptune Collonges.Show more

Mary Anne Krupsak was born on March 26, 1932 and passed away on December 28, 2024. She was the lieutenant governor of New York from 1975 - 1978, and was the first woman to hold the office. Mary Ann...e was born in New York and attended the University of Rochester. She then received a master's degree in public communications from Boston University. She worked in the New York State Department of Commerce. She joined the campaign efforts of a few politicians before attending the University of Chicago Law School. After graduating, she briefly practice law before returning to New York to be an assistant counsel for the state Senate staff. Mary Anne was a member of the New York State Assembly from 1969 to 1973. She was a member of the New York State Senate from 1973 to 1975. In May 1974, she announced that she would be running for Governor of New York. She campaigned through the primary season and won the support of women's rights groups, labor unions, and liberal organizations. She beat both Cuomo and Antonio Olivieri and in November 1974, she was elected lieutenant governor of New York. Mary Anne was also on the Board of Directors for several corporations, including Coleco. During her tenure on the Board, Coleco came out with Cabbage Patch Kids. She will be deeply and dearly missed by all those that knew and loved her.Show more