It’s Alive!’s Drew Ford has passed away due to COVID complications
The news started to go around earlier today that It’s Alive!‘s Andrew (Drew) Ford has passed away. Ford was found September 26 in his car in distress from COVID related pneumonia. His heart had stopped working for 20 minutes and he was rushed to to the emergency room where was pronounced brain dead. His organs will be donated.
His wife Kiki is currently running a GoFundMe to raise funds to pay for his medical bills. Unfortunately, Ford’s insurance had lapsed.
It’s Alive! was launched by Ford in 2016 who had previously had worked for Dover Publications. The imprint was to get “long out of print comics back in print”. It also published new English translations of foreign releases as well as original projects. Later that year, the publisher struck a deal with IDW Publishing to release comics through them which lasted a limited time. In recent times Ford turned to crowdfunding for projects.