Colorist and storyteller for some of the world’s most powerful superheros — most notably, Batman — Verona native Adrienne Roy died on Friday, December 14 in Austin, Texas after a yearlong battle with ovarian cancer.
A Magna Cum Laude fine art graduate of William Paterson University, Roy was one of the comic book industry’s top female artists and an early female pioneer in world of tattooing and body art. She was voted “Most Beautifully Tattooed Female” at the 1982 National Tattoo Convention and featured as the centerfold in the debut issue of Tattoo magazine.
“Adrienne was the personification of color, professionally and personally,” recalls former Batman assistant editor Jordan B. Gorfinkel. “She was talented. She was ebullient… In every way, she made four colors into an infinite rainbow.”
Roy, who was 57, lived her final years in Austin, TX, and is survived by her brother, Normand Roy of Montclair, her daughter Katrina Tollin of Austin, Texas and former husband and art partner Anthony Tollin of San Antonio, TX — not to mention more than 50,000 pages of colorful comic book storytelling featuring the World’s Greatest Super-Heroes.
Donations may be made to the Hero Initiative, a charity that supports comic industry professionals during difficult times.
Read a full obituary here.
Photos courtesy of Anthony Tollin.
This is such a sad loss. I do remember her as a kid; I went to her house for a Girl Scout meeting or something and she was really into taxidermy…She proudly displayed her stuffed animal skins…Even then, she marched to the beat of her own drummer…
My Dad knew her father, and he was a lovely man. I believe her mother died when she was fairly young…another young life in the family cut short.
R.I.P., Adrienne..
Damn Cancer! Takes so many many good people before their time! I give to Cancer to find a cure, yearly – but in my heart I feel that no cure will ever be found, yet, I am 4-ever hopefull – - I give a decent amount.
So many more people TODAY with it. My grandparents lived to 98 & 97, and Never had it. But, food processing, fast food, stress, etc, not known in 1915 might of been the reason! No Micro waves, fall out pollution, back then….
amd 1 grandfather smoked cigars for “only” 50 years from age 25 to 75. He died at 98 of old age.