US cartoonist Joseph Barbera dies
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Joseph Barbera, one half of the  team that created The Flintstones and Scooby-Doo cartoons, dies, aged 95.
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Will Eisner, a master of American comics and a pioneer of the graphic novel who gave his name to the comic industry's equivalent of the Oscars, has died at age 87, his publisher said on Tuesday.
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Joaqu&#237;n Salvador Lavado, known as Quino, is regarded as the best cartoonist ever to hail from Latin America.
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Bernard "Buddy" Diliberto, a New Orleans sports commentator who originated the tradition of fans wearing bags on their heads to lament losing teams, has died at the age of 73. Diliberto died of a heart attack Friday at his home in Metairie, said his son, Mike Diliberto.
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Description: Rodney Dangerfield, the comic who got laughs out of getting no respect, died Tuesday. He passed away at the University of California, Los Angeles, Medical Center where he had heart surgery in August.
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Hanna-Barbera created a pantheon of beloved characters, including Tom and Jerry, Yogi Bear and the Flintstones.
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German expressionist artist Joerg Immendorff, famous for his surreal and provocative paintings and sculptures, died on Monday at age 61 in Duesseldorf after a long illness, his wife Oda Jaune-Immendorff said.
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Helen K. Copley, retired longtime publisher of The San Diego Union, has died. She was 81.
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Belgian Cardinal Gustaaf Joos, who derided lesbians and gays as "sexual perverts," died Tuesday, local church officials said. He was 81.
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Novelist and gay rights activist  Joseph Hansen, whose highly successful mystery series featured  one of the genre's first openly homosexual investigators, Dave  Brandstetter, has died at age 81 after a long illness, friends  said on Monday.
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Rodney Dangerfield, the goggle-eyed comic famed for his self-deprecating one-liners and signature phrase "I can't get no respect," died on Tuesday at age 82, his publicist said.
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Planet Out - SUMMARY: Award-winning mystery writer Joseph Hansen, who created one of the first gay protagonists in the genre, died of heart failure on Nov. 24 after a long respiratory illness.
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Veteran US comic Rodney Dangerfield dies in hospital, weeks after undergoing  heart surgery.
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Novelist and gay rights activist Joseph Hansen, whose highly successful mystery series featured one of the genre's first openly homosexual investigators, Dave Brandstetter, has died at age 81 after a long illness, friends said on Monday.
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US novelist Sidney Sheldon dies aged 89 of complications from pneumonia.
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BIRMINGHAM, Alabama  - Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Doug Marlette, the irreverent creator of the "Kudzu" comic strip, died on Tuesday in a Mississippi car crash, his newspaper said.
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One half of the super-duo Hanna-Barbera passed away Monday. Joe Barbera helped create some of America's most beloved cartoon characters such as Tom and Jerry, Scooby-Doo, The Jetsons and the Flintstones. Both partners met while working for the Hollywoo...