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Robert Trebor, who portrayed the serial killer known as the Son of Sam in a CBS telefilm and the scheming merchant Salmoneus on Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and its sister series, Xena: Warrior Pr...incess, has died. He was 71.Show more

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He was memorable as Iceman in 'Top Gun,' Jim Morrison in 'The Doors,' Doc Holliday in 'Tombstone' and the Caped Crusader in 'Batman Forever.'

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Gordon Dobson, who ran the Toytown toyshop in Leamington Spa, has passed away at age 94. Gordon Dobson became the manager of Toytown in 1966 and in 1977 became the managing director.

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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