Keith Giffen, the comic book artist and writer who created characters now beloved of cinemagoers, has died aged 70.
Giffen, born in Queens, New York, in 1952, is best known for his work for both Marvel and DC. Among the many characters he created were Rocket Raccoon, star of Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy movie series, and the DC superhero Blue Beetle, AKA Jaime Reyes, a Mexican-American iteration of a longstanding character, who this year had his own film outing.
