I logged into Facebook last night around 11 p.m. and was shocked to see that Audrey Parente had shared in the Southern Pulpsters group a post that artist, writer, and editor Michael R. Hudson had died suddenly an hour or so earlier. He was 61.
Michael was behind Sequential Pulp Comics and Raven’s Head Press, and before those, he ran ReelArt Studios, which produced collectible statues of pulp, comics, and pin-up art.
I knew him online from his years creating statues of characters such as The Spider, Tarzan, Buck Rogers, and Prince Valiant. I finally met him in person and got to know him better at Pulp AdventureCon in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., the past couple of years.
Through Sequential Pulp and Raven’s Head, he had published graphic novels and reprints of a number of pulp stories. Many of his Sequential Pulp books were brought out through Dark Horse Comics. More recently, Michael had run a successful Kickstarter campaign to publish a graphic novel adaptation of Fredric Brown’s classic Martians, Go Home! illustrated by Lowell Isaac.
A native of Memphis, Michael had lived in Clearwater and along the west coast of Florida for a number of years.
Rest in peace, Michael.
