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Ringgenberg REACHABLE AT [email protected] DOSSIER Runner, a pair of stories of Archie Goodwin’s Bidding a Fond Farewell Epic, an 8-page science fiction story written by Mark Schultz for Dark Horse Presents, and an 8 pager for Mark Wheatley entitled to the Emperor of Barsoom “Tracker” that only appeared in the book Al Williamson Adventures. However, once Al Williamson R.I.P. Al was finished with the Star Wars strip, he mostly concentrated on comic book inking (March 21, 1931– June 12, 2010) to pay the bills. Since Al preferred to pencil and ink his comic book artwork himself, antasy art and comics fans have been out on this treasure were able to read the it was simply too time-consuming for this dealt a terrible blow this year with the same strips, reformatted as comic book pages finicky craftsman to make a living drawing Fdeath of Al Williamson. Anyone who in Dark Horse’s Classic Star Wars title, a for comic books. Al started at DC, inking loves great illustration should celebrate the life 20-issue miniseries that boasted new cover Superman over Curt Swan, and doing an and accomplishments of one of the most tal- art by Williamson and such younger aco- 8-page story for Superman #400, then after ented guys who ever put pen to paper. Al was lytes as Mark Schultz and Tom Yeates. Not a couple of years, had a falling-out with also one of the nicest people who ever worked only did Al lend Dark Horse his artwork, he the company, and moved over to Marvel, in the comics industry, a friendly, wickedly also added new artwork where the existing where he spent the rest of his career inking funny, and enthusiastic fellow. I never met panels didn’t fit the comic book format. All superhero art, occasionally taking a break by anyone who knew Al who didn’t like him. in all, he probably did as much, or more, drawing and inking a story on his own. Al Al was not just a great guy, though. He was Star Wars artwork as he did Flash Gordon was so skilled at inking other people’s work also one of the best artists who ever worked drawings, even if you take into account the that he was voted best inker 7 times at the in comics. He began working professionally original 60’s Flash Gordon comics he drew, Harvey Awards, and won 2 Eisner awards for in his late teens, penciling a trio of Tarzan the 1980’s adaptation of the Flash Gordon the same work. Sunday pages for the great Burne Hogarth. film he drew for Western Publishing, and the Unfortunately, Al’s last decade of life was From there, Al was off and running, doing final two-issue Flash Gordon miniseries he plagued by Alzheimer’s and little by little this Artwork mild supernatural stories for ACG, westerns did for Marvel in the 1990’s. His final pub- talented, funny, intelligent, and kindly soul for Toby (sharing art chores with Frank lished Flash Gordon artwork was penciling slipped away and finally went to that big bull- © The Estate of Al Williamson Al of Estate The Frazetta), and real-life adventures for Heroic a Sunday page for Jim Keefe, who was doing pen in the sky in the summer of 2010. Al is Comics. He eventually wound up at EC the Flash Gordon strip at the time. survived by his lovely wife Cori, his daughter Comics in 1952, where he created legendary Following his work on the Star Wars news- Valerie, and his son Victor. Let’s hope that Al science fiction, shock, and horror stories, paper strip, Al did a few other projects that Williamson is having some kind of Fleagles often in collaboration with his friends Roy he penciled and inked, notably an adapta- reunion with old friends Frazetta, Krenkel, Krenkel, Angelo Torres and Frank Frazetta. tion of Ridley Scott’s sci-fi classic Blade George Evans (an EC colleague and his suc- As he matured and sharpened his artistic skills on strips like Flash Gordon, Rip Kirby, Big Ben Bolt, Dan Flagg, and Secret Agent X-9, he grew into a fine illustrator who could draw anything with skill, verve, and unri- valed visual panache. Appropriately enough, Al got to work on three characters created by his idol, the great Alex Raymond. He ghosted art chores on the Flash Gordon newspaper strip in the 50’s, drew Flash in comic books three times, spent several years assisting John Prentice on the Rip Kirby daily strip, and drew Secret Agent X-9 for 13 years. After leaving the X-9 strip in 1980, Al moved on to draw the Star Wars daily and Sunday page, from 1981 through 1984, again assisted by able sideman Archie Goodwin. Al also drew the official comics adaptations of both The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi and issue #98 of the regular Star Wars title. In 1991, Russ Cochran, the pub- lisher of the Complete EC Library, collected all of Williamson and Goodwin’s Star Wars strips in a slip-cased three-volume set that’s now a prized collector’s item because of its low print run. Fortunately, fans that missed 8 HEAVY METAL HEAVY METAL 9 HM0311_P008-009_Dossier2.indd 8 11/12/10 5:11 PM HM0311_P011-P014_Gallery.indd 11 11/16/10 11:27 AM James Wolf Strehle GALLERY HEAVY METAL T-SHIRTS Chichoni Oscar Chichoni artwork from the cover of our May 1995 issue. One of our most popular!! Christmas 1977 Beautifully designed tee featuring the classic cover of our December 1977 issue, with art by Jean Sole.