Michael Turner went from relative obscurity to Comic Book Super Star almost overnight. Having met Michael soon after the launch of Witchblade, it felt to me that he was one of the most accessible talents in the industry. Mike had a magical way about him where he could make you feel like you were the only person in the room when he was speaking to you and like every fan was his most important fan. I actually believe that the felt that way. Every fan was his most important fan. He genuinely appreciated every single person who loved his artwork and spent hours and hours in lines just to get a chance to get his autograph. Over the years, while it became more difficult for him to get to all of his fans because there were so many an also because of his personal struggle with his illness, he never once seemed any less gracious to his legions of fans. There were some conventions when he was so ill that he could barely get out of bed, but he push himself to go in to the convention so that he wouldn’t disappoint people that had come to see him.
Michael Turner was a true class act. He was one in million both artistically and as a human being.
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