Howard Eugene Day was a Canadian comics artist best known for his work on Marvel Comics' Star Wars licensed series and Master of Kung Fu.
11 Facts About Gene Day
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Gene Day's continuing relationship with Stafford's company, Chaosium would see him produce artwork for many of their products, including the cover of the first edition of the horror roleplaying game Call of Cthulhu in 1981.
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In 1979, Gene Day wrote and drew an early graphic novel, Future Gene Day, a hardcover collection of seven stories that he called a "graphic album".
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Gene Day died of a coronary crossing a street in his hometown of Gananoque, Ontario.
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Gene Day really showed me that success in a creative field is a matter of hard work and productivity and persistence.
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Gene Day would draw work for money and then do work on spec if the paying markets dried up.
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Gene Day kept trying at places where he had been rejected.
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Gene Day did strips, cartoons, caricatures, covers, spot illos, anything that he might get paid for.
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Gene Day gave drawing lessons and produced his own fanzines.
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In 2007, Gene Day was inducted into the Joe Shuster Awards' Canadian Comic Book Creator Hall of Fame.
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The first Gene Day Award was presented on September 26,2009 by David Gene Day and James Waley to Jesse Jacobs for his self-published mini-comic Blue Winter, Shapes in the Snow.