{"id":902056,"date":"2026-04-28T03:27:03","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T08:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/28\/sam-kieth-the-maxx-and-sandman-comic-book-artist-dies-at-63\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T03:27:03","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T08:27:03","slug":"sam-kieth-the-maxx-and-sandman-comic-book-artist-dies-at-63","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/28\/sam-kieth-the-maxx-and-sandman-comic-book-artist-dies-at-63\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Kieth, \u2018The Maxx\u2019 and \u2018Sandman\u2019 Comic Book Artist, Dies at 63"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Kieth, the comic book creator of \u201cThe Maxx\u201d and co-creator of \u201cSandman,\u201d died March 15. He was 63. Kieth\u2019s lifelong friend and collaborator Scott Dunbier confirmed that the artist died of Lewy Body Dementia to Bleeding Cool. Born on January 11, 1963, Kieth began his career in comics at the age of 17&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/tv\/news\/sam-kieth-dead-the-maxx-sandman-1236696378\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Arushi Jacob<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Kieth, the comic book creator of \u201cThe Maxx\u201d and co-creator of \u201cSandman,\u201d died March 15. He was 63. Kieth\u2019s lifelong friend and collaborator Scott Dunbier confirmed that the artist died of Lewy Body Dementia to Bleeding Cool. Born on January 11, 1963, Kieth began his career in comics at the age of 17&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":902057,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4948,149157,192],"tags":[42747,149156],"class_list":{"0":"post-902056","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the","8":"category-kieth","9":"category-sports","10":"tag-the","11":"tag-kieth"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=902056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/902057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=902056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=902056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=902056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}