Illustrator Al Williamson passed away on Sunday at 89. He is best remembered for his work for EC Comics titles Weird Science and Weird Fantasy often collaborating with Frank Frazetta, Roy Krenkel and Angelo Torres.
For more than five decades Al's work covered virtually every type of comic genre for all of the major publishers. He also worked on newspaper strips including Rip Kirby, the long-running strip Secret Agent X-9, by Alex Raymond creator of Flash Gordon. Raymond's Flash was a big artistic influence on Al, in the 1980's George Lucas picked him to illustrate the Star Wars newspaper strip because of his art at EC and Al's own Flash Gordon work.
In 1994 Al contributed to a Topps Universal Monsters Illustrated. a 100 card collection using top comics professionals each doing 9 illustrations featuring their interpretations of a Universal Monster movie, Al's was 1955's This Island Earth. I'm posting those nine as a tribute to one of the finest science fiction / fantasy illustrators. He will be missed.
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