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Rest in peace: "Honest" Ed Mirvish

  • Jul. 11th, 2007 at 1:35 PM
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"Honest Ed" died this morning at a sprightly 92 years of age. Let's all have a Scott Pilgrim-esque moment of confused silence in his honour.

EDIT TO ADD: I have a little remembrance thing on the National Post blog, thanks to Steve Murray, newsman extraordinaire.

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Here's some artwork I posted on my flickr yesterday...

Save the date Agnes Quill and ghost w/ ghost hat
Charlotte #2

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[info]vrbtm wrote:
Jul. 11th, 2007 04:45 pm (UTC)
oh, the stark existential horror of it all
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[info]goraina wrote:
Jul. 11th, 2007 04:49 pm (UTC)
Noooooo Honest Ed, I only just met thee.

Do you think it'll go belly-up now that he's gone? Will Toronto lobby to save it?
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[info]destroyerzooey wrote:
Jul. 11th, 2007 04:50 pm (UTC)
I've heard rumours that various interests want to demolish everything after his demise, but I don't really know anything about city politics so I couldn't tell you more.
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[info]p0int_and_laugh wrote:
Jul. 11th, 2007 05:11 pm (UTC)
If it goes down, i take it as a sign of this town dying. Sam's was bad enough.
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[info]madlycool wrote:
Jul. 11th, 2007 04:52 pm (UTC)
Damn, that's too bad. I imagine the store is doing well, and will survive him.

Too bad Scott never made it down to Sam's.

And, cool art!
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[info]destroyerzooey wrote:
Jul. 11th, 2007 05:14 pm (UTC)
Yeah, I feel kinda bad about not putting Sam's in, now.
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[info]littlegirltoast wrote:
Jul. 11th, 2007 05:16 pm (UTC)
Did I maybe hear the signage is being preserved as historic? So maybe it's not altogether too late.
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[info]destroyerzooey wrote:
Jul. 11th, 2007 05:34 pm (UTC)
The outside is definitely historic - the inside, not so much. But it's a huge shopping spot for the downtown immigrant population, I gather.

I hope everything works out peachy keen for everyone, I guess is what I'm saying.
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[info]destroyerzooey wrote:
Jul. 11th, 2007 05:35 pm (UTC)
Oh wait, you meant Sam's, presumably. That would be good. Sigh. Poor Sam's.
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[info]music_slut wrote:
Jul. 11th, 2007 05:58 pm (UTC)
Yep, the Sam's signs will indeed be preserved as part of the city. There's even talk now of Ryerson taking over the building and preserving the signs as is: http://www.thestar.com/News/article/231768

Sam's and the Uptown theatre were where I spent the most time in Toronto as a greasy, pimply-faced teen, and with both of them gone now, it just isn't the same for me. Here's hoping they keep Honest Ed's around for a long time to come.
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[info]mean_spiders wrote:
Jul. 13th, 2007 10:42 pm (UTC)
Here here! at least the exterior facade. They could always open up the interior to several other stores/shops of whatever design. But I'm sure there's a large enough demand for the 'quality' merchandise they feature. And I mean, for fucks sakes, where am I gonna go to get cheap socks and underwear once my existing pairs of cheap socks and underwear wears out? wal mart? THINK NOT.
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[info]lunarworks wrote:
Jul. 11th, 2007 09:07 pm (UTC)
You can still put Sam's in, if you feel like it. The first volume was 3 years ago, when Sam's was still quite open, and the story seems not to be tied down to any specific year. (As far as I can tell.)
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[info]chipzdarsky wrote:
Jul. 11th, 2007 09:13 pm (UTC)
ANSWER:
FLASHBACK.
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[info]angry_man wrote:
Jul. 11th, 2007 04:56 pm (UTC)
I'll have an existential crisis in its honour.
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[info]music_slut wrote:
Jul. 11th, 2007 05:02 pm (UTC)
Yeah, I just heard about this too. Rest in peace, Ed.

The Charlotte Hatherley images look great, by the way. Such a nice change of pace (it looks as though you're referencing someone there that I can't quite place my finger on?). Me likey.

Also: Doraemon!!!
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[info]destroyerzooey wrote:
Jul. 11th, 2007 05:13 pm (UTC)
Person I am referencing: Charlotte Hatherley

Oh, you mean art-wise... they wanted me to do something approximating the Fighting Spirit manga.
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[info]music_slut wrote:
Jul. 11th, 2007 05:16 pm (UTC)
oho, Fighting Spirit! I have only seen the anime and not the manga, which would explain me not quite catching the style right off the bat.
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[info]destroyerzooey wrote:
Jul. 11th, 2007 05:36 pm (UTC)
I've never read it either, but they sent me a bunch of reeeeeeeeeally awesome pages from it. It gets super crazy in later volumes, kind of like Slam Dunk - the artist goes from cutesy and silly to intensely kinetic and cinematic.
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[info]music_slut wrote:
Jul. 11th, 2007 06:00 pm (UTC)
Maaaan. I think I will definitely have to check the manga out now.
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[info]phthoggos wrote:
Jul. 11th, 2007 05:17 pm (UTC)
Oh man, that Freewheelin' one is amazing.
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[info]rstevens wrote:
Jul. 11th, 2007 05:37 pm (UTC)
I can't believe I'm tearing up over a dude I never saw before.
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[info]monstro wrote:
Jul. 12th, 2007 12:17 am (UTC)
He was a great man, Rich!
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[info]hirovox wrote:
Jul. 11th, 2007 05:40 pm (UTC)
I can't believe he's dead...on the other hand, I can't believe that he was still alive up until today. Ach...
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[info]spinningmind wrote:
Jul. 11th, 2007 09:10 pm (UTC)
If they do tear it down he is totally going to haunt it's ruins... which would suck for us. Actually, he'll probably haunt this block one way or another but at least if they keep the sign up we can expect a benign smiley sort of specter.
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[info]mean_spiders wrote:
Jul. 13th, 2007 10:45 pm (UTC)
I imagine a zombie version of honest ed mirvish will still come around sometime near christmas to doll out zombie turkeys to people brave enough to accept one. It'll be disturbing, and I'm sure many kids will scream and/or cry at the spectacle this'll make.... but at least the spirit of what ed mirvish once was will be kept intact. AS A ZOMBIE.
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[info]leilawinters wrote:
Jul. 11th, 2007 10:45 pm (UTC)
I like the Fighting Spirit influence! XD The series needs more females! She looks kickass.

Sorry about Honest Ed. That kind of stuff is always sad. Hope they don't demolish it.
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[info]cannedlizard wrote:
Jul. 12th, 2007 01:05 am (UTC)
Out of curious, was the Charlotte Hatherley video you did those for end up being Behave? It seemed to use a cartoon style, and featured a boxing scene, if I recall correctly.
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[info]destroyerzooey wrote:
Jul. 12th, 2007 12:42 pm (UTC)
No, it was for "I Want You To Know". Which ended up being all-live action, all-boxing.
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[info]merofi wrote:
Jul. 12th, 2007 01:21 am (UTC)
Love the first watercolor. And poor Honest Ed. He lived a full life...
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[info]hughtron wrote:
Jul. 12th, 2007 03:04 am (UTC)
1)I saw the news of Ed's passing on the Toronto Star's website this morning at work, and my first thought was "I wonder if Mal knows?" And of course you had! Truly you have the pulse of Toronto.

2)That ghost picture looks Way Neat. I love it more than you'll ever know.

3)I've not read Fighting Spirit, so I can't comment on that, but there is kind of a Paul Pope-ish feel to the Charlotte Hatherley art. In a totally good way. They look great.
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[info]wedbertham wrote:
Jul. 12th, 2007 04:04 am (UTC)
It's going to be a said day when Crazy Gideon bites it:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=5ODs4nxNnWM
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[info]mooncalfe wrote:
Jul. 12th, 2007 06:52 pm (UTC)
oh man that guitar girl is probably the best drawing you've ever done!! so good.
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[info]m_t_n wrote:
Jul. 12th, 2007 07:09 pm (UTC)
What a bummer. Ed seemed like such a Toronto institution to me that I always assumed he would be immortal. I just hope his store sticks around; I have fond memories of all the wobbly items I bought there over the years.
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[info]blagh wrote:
Jul. 16th, 2007 12:14 pm (UTC)
::raises glass:: Having only visited it after reading Scott Pilgrim, it's still a bit surreal to think of it as a place that actually exists.
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