Thanks, Mr. Bradbury.

[maritzac]

Today Ray Bradbury died. It's a bad day.

[Alice Macher]

It's a sad day indeed. He'll be missed.

A quick anecdote showing the sort of person Ray Bradbury was:

In 1952, Al Feldstein of EC Comics adapted two Bradbury short stories without permission, combining them into a single comic short. Many an author or publisher, then and now, upon learning that this sort of thing had been done, would immediately release the lawyers, as they'd be legally entitled to. Instead, Bradbury wrote Feldstein and EC publisher Bill Gaines a letter praising their adaptation of his work, while noting wryly that he'd "inadvertently" not yet received his payment. Feldstein and Gaines, taking the hint, sent him a cheque and contacted him to negotiate terms for future adaptations of his stories. They would go on, with Bradbury's full endorsement, to adapt some two dozen of his stories, in titles such as Weird Science and Weird Fantasy.

[Freemage]

The man was a genius, and his works will live on for a long, long time. One thing a lot of folks don't know--he pretty much was one of two authors responsible for the roots of what would later become the Goth movement.

See, Bradbury wrote these short stories about a clan he called "The Family". They were... different than other families. Amongst other things, they had a mummy grandfather in the attic, a witch for a daughter, and so on. Well, that provided the basis for a small little comic strip by another author--The Addams Family.