one of my favorite authors. he will be missed. https://variety.com/2018/...202861144/

I kinda knew him a bit. We talked. Great man sad day. A real fighter.

One of the greats, he will be missed.

one of the great grumps, too...he was always a great interview subject. i've not read too much of his stuff, but i've always enjoyed it.

RIP

bummer. He wrote some of the more interesting pulp and stories I've seen/read.

the comics journal's obituary

...and a vintage interview from same.

This is a good doc on him:

He had depression like his friend Robin Williams.

Funny how many artistically inclined people suffer from depression or some related malady...

I will always like him because he used a bit of my poetry in one of his essays.

endymion said:

Love a lot of his work and his editing of Dangerous visions. However I have read a lot of comments about him being an aggressive misogynistic arse far too often. Can you separate the man from the art?

i'm with purplethunder on this. seems like a lot of successful writers have a touch (or more!) of personal madness going for them. so yes, i try to separate the work from the flawed human being who produced said art. that being said there are tons of them i wouldn't care to meet.