What is Richard Sala?
[[File:Richard Sala.jpg|right|200px]] '''Richard Sala''' (June 2, 1954 – May 7, 2020) was an [[Americans|American]] horror [[cartoonist]], [[illustrator]], and [[comic book creator]]. He was born in [[Oakland, California]]. He was raised in [[West Chicago, Illinois]]. Two of his books, ''The Chuckling Whatsit'' and ''Mad Night'' began as [[Serial (literature)|serial]]s. ''The Chuckling Whatsit'' first appeared in the anthology ''[[Zero Zero (comics)|Zero Zero]]''. Sala has also worked on projects with [[Lemony Snicket]], [[Steve Niles]] and [[The Residents]] and illustrated ''[[Doctor Sax and The Great World Snake]]'' In 2014, Sala began writing and drawing a [[webcomic]] entitled Super-Enigmatix.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Davis|first1=Lauren|title=This Nefarious Webcomic Evildoer Is Every Bond Villain Rolled Into One|url=http://io9.com/this-nefarious-webcomic-evildoer-is-every-bond-villain-1609398828|website=io9.com|publisher=Gawker Media|access-date=1 August 2014|archive-date=26 July 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140726091631/http://io9.com/this-nefarious-webcomic-evildoer-is-every-bond-villain-1609398828|url-status=dead}}</ref> In 2016, Sala began a second webcomic, The Bloody Cardinal, also about a mystery-shrouded super-criminal.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Sala|first1=Richard|title=New web-comic THE CARDINAL debuts! |url=http://hereliesrichardsala.blogspot.com/2016/02/new-web-comic-cardinal-debuts.html|website=hereliesrichardsala.blogspot.com|access-date=27 February 2016}}</ref> On May 9, 2020, Sala's death was announced, aged 65.<ref>{{cite web |title=Fantagraphics Books Twitter feed |url=https://twitter.com/fantagraphics/status/1259253229118017536 |access-date=May 9, 2020}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Sala, Richard}} [[Category:1954 births]] [[Category:2020 deaths]] [[Category:American cartoonists]] [[Category:American illustrators]] [[Category:American comics artists]] [[Category:American comics writers]] [[Category:Writers from Oakland, California]] [[Category:Writers from