Just saw the news when Peter's post came through my rss reader. Dave was yet another of those artists I grew up reading without knowing who he was (because I was too young to appreciate the idea that there were individuals working on those books). I was reading reprints of his X-Men and LSH work when I was still in elementary school.

Alas, I was never lucky enough to meet him at a con. I'm glad to hear that he seems to have been just as good a person as he was an artist.