I want to thank everyone who wrote notes of shock and regrets about Dave Stevens. I have more than eighty such e-mails so I may not get around to answering them all for a while.
I appreciate the thought and I hope this doesn't sound callous or rude but I'd really prefer that, instead of composing private messages to me, you spent the same energy posting to public forums, telling folks who might not fully realize, what a terrific human being and artist he was. I don't need to be told that…and I also feel uncomfy to be getting all these condolences when so many out there are in mourning for our pal. Dave had an awful lot of friends including — and my e-mailbox is crammed with proof of this — many he didn't even know.