For those few of you...

Who aren't familiar with Dave Stevens' work, you may proceed here to have your eyeballs blown out by the wonderfulness (and yes, I know that isn't a word). Here's a great article about Dave and his work.

Our friend of the blog, Good Dog reminded me of something, and it's below:

Rocketeer Flies No More?

The news is early yet, and HAS NOT been confirmed by standard news sources, but it appears that Dave Stevens, the creator of The Rocketeer and the artist responsible for reinvigorating interest in Betty Page is dead.

More as this develops, but if it is confirmed it will be a sad, sad day here at the Pulp Headquarters.

Edit to add: Heidi MacDonald at The Beat confirms the story.

More on this later as I gather together all my memories of Dave's work, and the sorts of things that influenced the both of us.

Damn.

Update: Mark Evanier adds his remembrances of Dave.