Hi everyone,

I’m Sarah, head of legal affairs at Kidam, a production company based in France.

We signed a contract in February 2023 with Joe, to buy the exploitation rights for a movie by Olivier Babinet we’re preparing.

His sudden death came as a shock... All our sincere condolences to Joe’s family. 

I'm writing this message because we are currently looking for info on who is taking care of Joes estate/inheritance, so that we can honor the contract and make the instalment as planned this year and the next to come.

Thank you in advance, you can reach me on my email : sarah@kidam.net

Best regards, 

Sarah

I first met Joe when I was just a teenager. Against all odds, our love to Viewmasters was what brought us together. Since I was so young, and also due to the language barrier (I'm from Mexico) , our conversations were a little limited, but as the years passed by, a beautiful friendship began to come to life. I'm in my 30s now and as we used to say, we were really close friends even though we never got the chance to actually meet.It breaks my heart to accept that is impossible now.It's hard to put my feelings into words since the connection I feel to Joe was build trough social media and I guess that can seem fake to some people, but he was a real friend to me and I hope he knew how much I cared for him. I will always do. Sometimes months could go by without us writing to each other and suddenly one of us would check on the other or send a random video (of course he would love to spam me with Seymour pics)But the last video I sent stayed unanswered longer than usual. Then I thought of him tonight, while watching a video with some cute foxes (an animal he used to say he associated me with), got to his facebook page and well... I've been crying about it for two hours now. I'm really devastated.I know maybe my pain can't compare to the grief of those who were lucky enough to be actually around and close to him.I can't help but feel guilty it took me this long to find out about his passing. 

Thanks to anyone reading this, and my apologies for my poor english, I don't have anyone here to talk about it, at least no one that understands what Joe truly means to me.My sincere condolences to Joe's family and friends.

Sincere condolences to Joe’s family. I was wondering where his daily posts were so I checked in and found out. Gobsmacked.

In true autobiographical context, the reason I missed it was that I had unexpected open heart surgery on 9 September. By the 13th, things went wrong and I was in systemic failure and was put on full machine support in a coma for eight days.

During this period, we lost Joe. Once I came out of the coma, I could barely lift my arms, so couldn’t use my phone. In the dark.

I think of one of his gag cartoons, the two of us standing at the Pearly Gates with only Joe allowed in, me getting the boot from St Peter.

I never met him but we had some conversations on facebook. Not many “ famous” people take the time to be friendly. I felt an affinity with him and hoped to meet some day. I really find it hard to get my head around his passing. Not only for his work but also for his deep love of the history of the media. God bless him.

I didn’t know Joe but I came across the obituary. Wow, a talented artist! His work impacted so many. It’s so sad that he died so young. My heart goes out to his Family and friends.

Loosing a loved one in death is very difficult to deal with. There’s a beautiful promise found in the Bible. Jehovah God promises that soon these tragedies will be done and away with. “And he will wipe out every tear from their eyes, and death will be no more, neither will mourning nor outcry nor pain be anymore. The former things have passed away.” (Revelation 21:4) Please know that not a single tear drop of yours has gone unnoticed by Jehovah.

I'm very saddened over the news about Joe's death. Too young! I'm an alternative comics collector and run a sequential art website called Lines On Paper. Joe kindly contributed an artist card to us a few years ago. https://linesonpaper.com/card…

He was a talented artist who was too hard on himself, and a down-to-earth, nice guy with a great sense of humor. He came to my house in the San Fernando Valley once or twice, and even considered living in a spare room I had for rent. He took my wife and I to a comic book shop in his neighborhood in Los Feliz (L.A.) and made sure the owner brought out a handicap ramp for me so I could get into the store. We enjoyed similar taste in old time comics and silent film. He will be greatly missed by all who knew him.