[Schlimme]

Eduardo Barreto, der zur Zeit beste realistische Zeitungsstrip-Zeichner ("Judge Parker") ist schwer krank und kann nicht mehr weiterzeichnen.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/com..._artist_e.html

Beginning next week, readers will notice a significantly different look to the comic strip "Judge Parker." That is because Eduardo Barreto, the feature's artist since 2006, is gravely ill.

"Eduardo is not coming back," Woody Wilson, the longtime writer of "Judge Parker" (...) tells Comic Riffs. "He's gravely ill. He has told us he will not be able to [draw the comic for] the foreseeable future."

King Features Syndicate, which distributes "Judge Parker," says that Barreto is sick and that there's "a temporary replacement" artist.

"We are, at this moment ... conducting a search for another artist," Wilson says by phone from Phoenix.

A family member says that Barreto, a Uruguayan resident who is in his mid-50s, has meningitis, Wilson says.

"Two weeks ago -- this came on suddenly -- he had to go to the hospital" in Montevideo, says the writer, adding: "Eduardo sent us a note saying he wouldn't be able to continue."