Ava Hecht, the artist behind the webcomic Soprano Man, passed away on Thursday according to Gothamist.
According to New York City health officials, the 17-year-old Queens resident died of meningitis.
A senior at Stuyvesant High School, students say that Hecht looked fine the previous week, and was even working on homework the night before her death.
There is a Facebook group devoted to Hecht, which you can join here.
Soprano Man, which chronicled the superheroic exploits of a fellow choirist of Hecht’s, began in May of 2007.
January 12th, 2009 at 9:54 am
My condolences to family and friends. She sounds very talented. I’m going to read her comic this afternoon.