Comic book writer Rachel Pollack has died at the age of 77. Ha Wife Judith Zoe Mateen shared the news on Friday via her husband profile facebook. Pollack come next she He was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma in July 2022, and moved into hospice care this past March.
“HeyThe beloved Rachel Pollack passed away peacefully and beautifully today at approximately 12:45 p.m. after a moving ceremony called Hand to Heart,” Mattin wrote.I know Rachel will continue to be a light in this world and the next. You will continue to inspire so much of the beloved Tarot community, the Sci-Fi and Fantasy community, the comics community, and the transgender community with whom you have shared so much respect and care.”
Born August 17, 1945, Pollack is perhaps best known as a writer for DC Comics Doom Patrol From 1993-1995. During that period, she created the Co. characteraJoulea, which was thHe is the first openly trans superhero in mainstream comics. In order to write it at the time, Pollack drew on her experience with tarot, which she taught for nearly 40 years and later consulted with Neil Gaiman on some of his stories. The two, along with artist Dave McCain, created the Vertigo Tarot Deck, and Pollack wrote an accompanying book.
In addition to comics, Pollack has also been the writer of several Books (fiction and non-fiction), essays, anthologies, and short fiction. She won the Arthur C. Clarke Prize in 1989I reply to her story Unquenchable fire And best novel In 1997’s World Fantasy Awards for godmother night. In addition to each that – that, taught all her life. I studied Tarot at the Omega Institute with Mary K. Jarir; Creative Writing at Goddard College, to name a few.
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“She was my friend of 38 years, and I will miss her,” she wrote. Gaiman on Twitter. Sending love to Rachel Pollack wherever her journey takes her.
“We have felt and cherished your love and prayers over the past months and years as Rachel faced many health challenges,”R. “We are one.”
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