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Like Greg and some of the others, I first encounters Williamson's work on the ESB adaptation. I found the Superspecial at the Book Nook on Buford highway shortly before the film opened and the art blew me away. Infantinos idiosyncratic style was always a hurdle to enjoying the comic series, and then suddenly here comes someone who not only did photo realistic ships, but got outstanding likenesses as well. I stared at those pages in awe all that summer. THIS was how you do a movie adaptation!
The only thing that kept the work from being a complete home run was his baffling affectation of putting in twenty colored balls in the background of the space scenes. They never worked for me, even as a design element. Take those out and it would have been a complete home run.
Even so, when he got tapped to do the special double sized 50th issue the next summer, it was still much anticipated event for me that did not disappoint.

A few years later I began collecting the Russ Cochran EC sets and discovered his early work, and was amazed to learn how close he, Frazetta, Krenkel, Wood, and all these other iconic names had been. Occasionally I would run across photos each of them had taken of the others for use as reference. God, did they look like they were having fun.

Frazetta's passing, after all the health problems and family issues, wasn't really all that unexpected. But Al, everytime I had seen pictures of him, seemed to have aged remarkably gracefully. He seemed fit and healthy, with that great head of thick white hair. Very surprised to hear his health was in decline for a while.