On May 1, 2025, the artist and creator of the Jackson “Butch” guice comic strip died. The news of her death first broke out by her brother-in-law James Hettel. His cause of death is unknown, but he had dealt with health problems. HETTEL published the following on Facebook.
Not often, I put something there … But it’s worth it.
This is a blanket on which my brother-in-law, Jackson “Butch” Guice made for a Captain America race on which he worked for Marvel Comics. Notice the patch on the left of the American soldier’s left in front of the corner formation. It is the unit patch for my original unit, 478th combat engine.
Butch could have chosen a number of well -known armed units well known to recognize on a blanket of a comic strip that would go around the world. He chose to wink at my unit. For what? Because this is the kind of guy he was and will always be.
Love your family. Has always taken care and loved my sister and my niece with all her heart. Never left me in the cold and was fast with a joke. Right shoot, literally and figuratively. Silent until there is really something that should be said.
People respected his talent and his ability to transform cerebral vascular accidents by living, breathing, I swear they will just walk on the page and hit you in the throat, works of true art.
But more then, they knew they were going to get an honest response from Butch. Not a canned, milky and watered down version of what they needed to hear. The real matter.
He won respect for his peers because they knew they could trust him and his word. The work of art, once established on paper or canvas or on the support with which he worked at the time, is solid and the proof is in the final result. A man’s word; That you can put stock in what he says and know that he holds him behind … like so many other things today, it is at best.
Not with Mr. Jackson Guice. If he told you something, you could take him to the bank. Whenever I asked for his opinion on something, he looked at me hard, said, “Now you really want that?” And then do to let me have it.
Words to describe Butch: solid. On. Influence. Like (forward, put up your ass and come back in the way). Affectionate. Love for his family as a mountain. And a holy anger like a mountain slide if he saw you looking aside those he protected.
He is exactly the kind of man I would have chosen to love and protect my sister. Thank you Lord for the luck you have given me and to be around Butch.
Hooah brother! Save me a seat on the shore near the water.
Born on June 27, 1961 in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Guice started is a comic book career in the 80s working in fanzines. One of his first published works was on a Novel annual. In 1982, he started working with Marvel on the Micronautes series. In 1986, he worked with Bob Layton working on Factor X. He would leave after working on 7 issues in the series, but would co-create Apocalypse with Louise Simonson before his departure. He would then work on some New mutants Before leaving to work with DC Comics on The flash In 1987. He would soon return to Marvel to find Bob Layton and working with David Michelinie Iron Man. After working on 9 numbers plus an annual, he worked with Roy Thomas on the new launch Doctor Strange: Supreme Sorceror For 18 other numbers, then work on Nick Fury, shield agent Before teaming up with Dwayne McDuffie on a Deathlok Mini-series.
Back at DC Comics, Guice would work with Roger Stern and David Michelinie Action comicsCovering the death of Superman, the funeral of a friend and the reign of the supermen’s scenarios.
In the mid -90s, Guice then worked with John Ostrander on Valiant Eternal warrior For 8 numbers.
Later, he would return to Marvel and DC working on their mini-series Amalgam DC / Marvel: all accessAfter their DC vs Marvel series.
Stay in DC, he then worked with Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning to create Resurrection man, which worked for 28 numbers. Afterwards, he would become a regular artist with Chuck Dixon Birds of prey. After a brief passage working with Crossgen on Cunning, He would team up with Kurt Busiek for Aquaman in the emblematic Atlantis sword scenario.
The final work of Guice’s comic strip would be Futurists With independent allegiance in 2020.
We will remember him for having co-created one of the most devastating bad guys in the X-Men in Revelation, but also for his dynamic works that helped define the appearance of comics in the 80s and 90s which will be an inspiration for future artists to come.
