A toast to Al Williamson and to the far places he has taken us to.
It was fun meeting Williamson back in the old EC convention days, and getting my own personal Flash sketch. I've been saving up some scans of his work for some posts, and those will be coming up next.
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sad indeed and so soon after the passing of his long time friend Frank Frazetta too. Al's work at EC still stands as some of the finest comic book art ever done imo.
Learn more about legendary comics artist Al Williamson in this Mr. Media interview with his friend and artist Mark Schultz, in which he discusses the book Al Williamson’s Flash Gordon: A Lifelong Vision of the Heroic.
Thomas,
Al Williamson is one of my all time favorite artists and hearing of his passing was incredibly sad to hear...compounded by the fact of his good friend Frank Frazetta's death a month ago! It's impossible to calculate the impact the art they created art has had on my life and the many roads of interesting art their work has led me to! Thanks for sharing this sketch by Al...did he have one of the greatest signatures ever or what! I was at the EC convention...I have the feeling our paths have crossed in those dim distant days!
Ah, those dim and distant days! Back then, did you happen to know Steve or Dennis of Middle Earth, earlyish publishers of Frazetta and Severin and Jones and etc.?
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