Via Con Dios Rick Ketcham.

Hey Gang,

I want to take a moment to talk about my friend Rick Ketcham who we lost on Tuesday.  Rick was a brilliant inker with significant credits spread across the comics industry spanning the last 20 or so years.  If you ever enjoyed comics like New X-Men, New Excalibur, Dollz, Buffy, Skarr, or Runaways among many others, then you probably enjoyed Ricks work at some point.  Rick was a long time collaborator and one of the go to guys for fellow studio-mate Randy Green randygreen.deviantart.com/.  He also shared studio space in Greensboro NC, with John (Waki) Wycough waki2.deviantart.com/, Brian Shearer gravyboy.deviantart.com/, Kelly Yates kellyyates.deviantart.com/, Steve Bird, Robert Atkins robertatkins.deviantart.com/, & Johndell Snead, while Garry McKee II gmckee.deviantart.com/ and I would join them from Georgia at conventions under the Tsunami Studios banner.

Rick was the nicest of nice guys.  He was generous and caring.  He was talented and humble.  He was genuinely a friendly guy. He had a tremendous work ethic.  I always liked to listen to his stories about working in comics back in the 90's and early 2000's. 

He was the ambassador of our studio and would often handle contacting new conventions where Tsunami was interested in setting up.  He shared knowledge and technique readily with his studio-mates and aspiring inkers he met at shows.  He understood the medium across the various disciplines it takes to build a comic book.  When he could, he would bring us in to help out with his own work.  He was fun to share a table with, and fun to ride to shows with.  My wife and I once had the pleasure of spending about 9 hours in the car with him, Steve Bird and Waki, going one way to a show in Virginia and then back home and while it was a long trip, it was also very enjoyable.

I didn't get to see Rick often enough.  It was usually only at shows where I spent most of my time trying to get sketches done and sell prints, but the time I did spend with him was good time.  I wish I had more of it.  He was a good man, a good artist and a good friend.  I'll miss him.

Via Con Dios my friend.
I'll see you again.
best
JW