Herb Trimpe RIP

harlie · **Joined:** Tue Jun 26, 2007 10:19 am **Location:** indy

pluv · **Posted:** Tue Apr 14, 2015 2:44 pm

He was one of those artists that made drawing look so natural and deceptively easy. We lost one of the good ones.

joemichaels70 · **Posted:** Tue Apr 14, 2015 3:10 pm

When I met he & Larry (I believe Atlanta JoeCon) they autographed this Magazine-size digest for me. Neither one had ever seen the product before, and we had a little conversation about it. Enjoy every sandwich.

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Not forgotten, RIP.

Sean_C · **Joined:** Sat Sep 12, 2009 8:43 pm

The cover to GI JOE #1 is iconic thanks to the artwork of Herb Trimpe.
R.I.P.

GITrekker · **Joined:** Tue Jun 26, 2007 10:19 am

Heard about this just a few minutes ago. Very sad. Definitely a great comic artist and an excellent contributor to G.I. Joe. I'm also pleased that the Club enlisted his services for some file card illustrations a while back.

MJTanner · **Posted:** Wed Apr 15, 2015 3:32 pm

Everyone in social media is focusing so much on his Hulk work, but for me he is just so definitively GI JOE.

Spassvogel · **Joined:** Sat Aug 25, 2012 2:18 am

joemichaels70 wrote:

When I met he & Larry (I believe Atlanta JoeCon) they autographed this Magazine-size digest for me. Neither one had ever seen the product before, and we had a little conversation about it.

I had that very book, purchased at Toys R Us. I had started buying the GI Joe comics after they had been out about a year. Eventually I had them all and realized I'd read some of them before, hehe.

chad_ghost · **Joined:** Tue Jun 26, 2007 10:19 am

Sad day. He really means so much to what we enjoy here.

Matthew · **Posted:** Thu Apr 16, 2015 9:15 am

I remember meeting him in Atlanta. I had a Joe shirt with an iron on of this art
http://www.yojoe.com/vehicles/83/accessorypack/

Even though Hasbro ripped off his issue #1 art, he'd never seen it before :-)

Spassvogel · **Joined:** Sat Aug 25, 2012 2:18 am

Does anyone recall whether there were any vehicles that Trimpe designed that ended up being made into toys?

GITrekker · **Joined:** Tue Jun 26, 2007 10:19 am

Spassvogel wrote:

Does anyone recall whether there were any vehicles that Trimpe designed that ended up being made into toys?

I honestly don't know, but I do recall in one early letter-column of the comic book, some letter-writer made reference to a remarkable plane that they'd seen in one particular issue, and wondered what it was, one would assume hoping it would be a forthcoming toy.

The response from Marvel was, "That was a Trimpe-Jet!"

:-D

I think we need a Trimpe-Jet.

joemichaels70 · **Posted:** Thu Apr 23, 2015 6:02 pm

GITrekker wrote:

I think we need a Trimpe-Jet.

Can you find the reference photo for this?

Macrossmaster · **Joined:** Tue Jun 26, 2007 10:19 am

Man this guy. He did the best comics. I ate up everything he drew. All my PIT dioramas are tributes to him. Sigh.

Herb Trimpe RIP

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