R.I.P. Al Williamson

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Rumors are legendary artist Al Williamson passed away yesterday at the age of 79.

I say rumors because I can only find info in the blogsphere. No legitimate news source has reported it.

He was a big influence on many artists and worked at nearly every major comic book publisher at some time, including EC, Warren, Atlas, Harvey, Gold Key, Comics Illustrated, along with doing the syndicated newspaper strip Flash Gordon.
 

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Al was an influence on a lot of big-names from Adam Hughes to Mark Schultz. One of the reasons I wanted Adam to pencil the first Death Hawk story was when I a couple of his character sketches, I immediately recognized the Al Williamson space opera influence.
 
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