Editing Dave Cockrum (section)

==Personal life, illness, and death==
While serving in the Navy in the late 1960s, Cockrum married Andrea Kline<ref name="NYTimes">{{cite news |url= https://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/29/arts/design/29cockrum.html?_r=2&sq=Dave%20Cockrum&st=cse&adxnnl=1&scp=1&adxnnlx=1240664473-aXJE2cOk969NIPqUrq8qEg&|title= Dave Cockrum, 63, Comic Book Artist, Dies|first= Douglas|last= Martin|date= November 29, 2006|newspaper= [[The New York Times]]|df=mdy-all}}</ref> and had a child with her, Ivan Sean.<ref name="NYTimes"/><ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.nightscrawlers.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=944|title= How Did Nightcrawler Come to be Created?|first= Dave (writing as "Dark Bamf")|last= Cockrum|date= September 10, 2002|publisher= Nightcrawlers v2.0|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120925184018/http://www.nightscrawlers.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=944|archive-date= September 25, 2012|url-status= live|df=mdy-all|access-date= April 25, 2009}}</ref>

Dave and Paty Greer Cockrum were married on April 28, 1978.<ref>"[[Bullpen Bulletins]]," Marvel Comics cover-dated November 1978.</ref>

In later years, Cockrum worked less frequently in comics. In 2004, he became seriously ill due to complications from [[diabetes]] and [[pneumonia]],<ref name=tcj260>{{cite news | url=http://www.tcj.com/260/n_cockrum.html | title=Marvel Makes Dave Cockrum an Offer He Can't Refuse| publisher= (excerpt) [[The Comics Journal]] | issue=260|date=May–June 2004| first=Michael |last=Dean| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080513082213/http://www.tcj.com/260/n_cockrum.html | archive-date= May 13, 2008}}</ref> and a number of fellow artists and writers led by [[Clifford Meth]] and [[Neal Adams]] organized a fundraising project. The auction, run by [[Heritage Auctions]] at the [[Wizard Entertainment#Conventions|WizardWorld Chicago]] show in August, raised over $25,000.<ref name="ComicsReporter"/> Marvel eventually provided an undisclosed amount of financial support in exchange for Cockrum agreeing to terms protected by a [[nondisclosure agreement]]. Cockrum said publicly he was "very happy that so many people cared about my work and about me. ... I'm enormously grateful to Clifford Meth and Neal Adams for having moved this forward. ... I'm very happy with what everyone has done, including Marvel."<ref name=tcj260 />

Cockrum was due to draw an eight-page story in ''Giant Size X-Men'' #3 (2005), but a recurrence of his health problems prevented this. Adams filled in.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://nightscrawlers.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4886#pid33627998|title= Dave on the X-men Again?|first= Nightcrawler|last= Zero|date= February 18, 2005|publisher= Nightscrawlers.com|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120717014253/http://nightscrawlers.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4886|archive-date= July 17, 2012|url-status= live|df=mdy-all}}</ref>

Cockrum died at his home in [[Belton, South Carolina]],<ref name="NYTimes" /> on the morning of November 26, 2006, due to complications from diabetes. He was survived by his longtime wife, Paty Cockrum, and by his son and two stepchildren.<ref name="ComicsReporter" />

===Legacy===
The [[The Kubert School|Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art]] bestowed the first annual Dave & Paty Cockrum Scholarship to a promising artist in 2008. The scholarship, which was organized by Meth, continues each year and is funded by sales of comics from Cockrum's personal collection.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://thecliffordmethod.blogspot.com/2007/12/own-dave-cockrums-comics.html|title= Own Dave Cockrum's and Gene Colan's Personal Comics and File Copies|first= Clifford|last= Meth|date= February 22, 2008|publisher= Thecliffordmethod.blogspot.com|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20130512083711/http://thecliffordmethod.blogspot.com/2007/12/own-dave-cockrums-comics.html|archive-date= May 12, 2013|url-status= live|df=mdy-all}}</ref>

In the novelization of ''[[X-Men: The Last Stand]]'', written by Cockrum's longtime associate [[Chris Claremont]] (published in 2006), the [[Lists of fictional Presidents of the United States|President]] is named "David Cockrum". Claremont also created a character in homage to Cockrum in ''[[New Exiles]]'' who eventually "moved on" at the end of ''[[X-Men: Die by the Sword]]'' (2007), which ended with a full-page tribute to Cockrum.<ref>{{Gcdb issue|id= 385938|title= ''X-Men: Die By the Sword'' #5 (Feb. 2008)}}</ref>