Something I just discovered, comics writer Michael Fleisher, who sued Ellison and Groth in the lawsuit that lasted from 1980-1987 and almost bankrupted Fantagraphics, also died, just a few months before Harlan Ellison.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_FleisherMichael Lawrence Fleisher (November 1, 1942 — February 2, 2018)[1][2][3] was an American writer known for his DC Comics of the 1970s and 1980s, particularly for the characters Spectre and Jonah Hex.
After Fleisher's 15 years as a comics writer, primarily on the Spectre in ADVENTURE COMICS 431-440, and on WEIRD WESTERN and JONAH HEX from 1974-1987, he left comics and embarked on a completely different career:
Afterward, Fleisher attended college in New York City from 1987 to 1991, while also writing for the British comics magazine 2000 AD.[21] Leaving the comics field that year, he moved to Ann Arbor, Michigan for graduate school[21] at the University of Michigan, spending from 1994 to 1996 researching his Ph.D thesis on commercialized cattle theft in Tanzania while living for two years[21] near Nairobi.[22] He then spent a year in New York writing his dissertation and earned a doctorate in anthropology.[21] After that, he worked as a "freelance anthropological consultant carrying out research assignments for humanitarian organizations in the developing world."[21] Fleisher died from complications of Alzheimer's disease in Beaverton, Oregon on February 2, 2018.[23]
I read elsewhere that Fleisher had a wife and children in Kenya.
He completely changed gears and lived a completely different life after the Fantagraphics lawsuit.
And despite that, Fleisher (Feb 2 2018) and Ellison (June 28 2018) died within months of each other.
