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| A self portrait of Clifford Vanmeter |
According to an obituary published on Icv2.com another game author from the 80s has left us, Clifford Vanmeter. As he wrote on his own blog, "I began my career as an illustrator working primarily in the role-playing game field. My early work included the Star Trek and Dr. Who role-playing games for FASA, and lead to a long run on titles like Battle-Tech, the DC Universe Role Playing Game, Chill, Traveller and much more. Later I founded Starchilde Studios where I created, wrote and published the game Justifiers RPG". As many, many authors of that age, he moved out the gaming industry but chose comics as his new professional field: "Moving to New York to pursue work in comics, I wrote and drew for Valiant Comics at the height of their popularity. Additional work came my way from Marvel, Milestone/DC Comics, and Image. After leaving Valiant, I started Comicolor, one of the first digital coloring and lettering companies for comic books in North America". His latest works were the Orion The Hunter sci fi books series.