Al Williamson

Above, an example of the artistic genius of Al Williamson.

EC Comics art great Al Williamson has died.

He was 79 and was in ill health for the past several years. Williamson worked at EC in the 1950s and then moved to Warren Comics in the 1960s. He drew such characters as Flash Gordon, Secret Agent Corrigan, Star Wars and was an inker for Superman artist Curt Swan in the early 1980s at DC Comics before moving on to Marvel as an inker.

On inking Swan's pencils, Williamson said in 1999, "I had no idea he [Swan] was so good till I saw the pencils. His proportions were right, his action was correct."

On Williamson's inks, Swan said, "[Al] was the best. A fine draftsman in his own right, an extremely talented artist, he could render even the little mechanical parts of vehicles. He had a special flair the others didn't have." (Quote from "Superman At Fifty.")