Long time comic artist Al Williamson died June 13th at age 79. Al's work in that galaxy far, far, away, includes the daily newspaper strip written by Archie Goodwin that ran from 1981 through 1984, mulltiple issues of the Marvel Comics run (including the ESB and ROTJ adaptations), inking for Dark Horse's A New Hope - Special Edition and Episode I: The Phantom Menace adaptations, as well as reformatting and creating new art work for Dark Horse's Classic Star Wars.
(Source: StarWars.com & Wookieepedia)