Rachel Pollack has died aged 77

Photograph ©Alexandros Megas

avant-garde author Rachel Pollack handed away after a protracted sickness.

His spouse Zoe Matoff posted on FB:

I’m unhappy to let you know that our beloved Rachel Pollack occurred so peacefully and fantastically right now round 12.45pm after a touching ceremony known as Hand to Coronary heart. A number of of us stood in a circle. I had my hand on his coronary heart. I began the circle by telling her how a lot I like her and what she means to me. Every took their flip after me to share their very own emotions and appreciation for Rachel. I do know Rachel will proceed to be a Mild on this world and the subsequent. She’s going to proceed to encourage so many in our beloved tarot neighborhood, the science fiction and fantasy neighborhood, the comics neighborhood, and the transgender neighborhood for whom she shared a lot respect and a spotlight. We’ve felt and cherished your love and prayers over the previous months and years as Rachel has skilled so many well being points. We’re a.

Pollack was finest identified in comics for her run on the Doom Patrol in Vertigo, however she was additionally well-known for her information of tarot, through works corresponding to Seventy-eight Levels of Knowledge: A Tarot Ebookprobably the most important books ever written on the topic.

Pollack’s Doom Patrol run started in 1993, after Grant Morrison’s epic stint, however it held its finish of the discount, working with Richard Case, Linda Medley and Ted McKeever to characteristic characters corresponding to Charlie the Doll, The Bandage Individuals and The SRS (Sexually Remaindered Spirits) and Kate Godwin, the primary trans superheroine.

I do know extra shall be written right here about Rachel, however I knew her as a smart and delightful girl who was all the time prepared to offer her time to make the world a greater place – each by means of her highly effective writing and her personal generosity. She’s touched lots of people, and I am so glad that lately her place as one of many first feminine trans comics creators in mainstream comics has turn into extra extensively identified, and that her work and her profession have been given the place they deserve. An omnibus of his work on Doom Patrol was released last year.

Relaxation in peace Rachel, we’ll always remember you.