Rory Root, a pioneering comic book retailer and owner of Berkeley’s Comic Relief, has passed away at age 50 from complications related to surgery for a ruptured hernia.
Tom Spurgeon has a great write-up on Rory on The Comics Reporter and a memorial for him has been setup on the Comic Relief website.
Here’s a photo I shot of Rory running the Comic Relief booth at WonderCon 2007.
More Coverage:
- Tom Spurgeon (The Comics Reporter)
- Neil Gaiman
- Warren Ellis
- Mark Evanier
- Hi Fructose
- Brian Hibbs
- Kali (Possibly Irrelevant Information)
via Warren Ellis
photo by Scott Beale
