Al Williamson, remembered

Here's a nice remembrance of Al Williamson, courtesy of comicbookresources.com.
Here's how the site introduces the article:

With his passing, Al Williamson left behind a legacy that will continue to live on well into the future. We spoke with Mark Schultz, George Lucas and others about their personal and professional memories of the artist.

Always good when someone interviews the supremely-talented writer and artist Mark Schultz, of "Xenozoic Tales" fame, about anything.

There's lots of cool art to look at, too.

I'd like to write a whole bunch of stuff about Al Williamson, but I doubt I'd have much to add that this story doesn't already cover. He was a brilliant artist, who captured flowing anatomy along with perfect pacing and wonderful use of black and white spaces. Heavily influenced by Alex Raymond, his pages played out dramatically like no others.

I have read many things he drew, including his EC science fiction comics from the '50s, a few westerns, his work on Star Wars in the 1980s, as well as his inking of John Romita Jr. and others in the 1990s.

As an inker, almost nobody could create such fine, flowing brush lines. He always enhanced the pencil art he was given, no matter how different the penciller's style was from his.

Anytime I saw Willimason's name in a comic book's credits, I always gave it a look.

There are lots of "Art of Al Williamson" type books out there, including a beautiful volume that collects his "Flash Gordon" work, from across several decades. I'd recommend anything he did.