Maybe I'm late to the game and it's common knowledge, but I didn't know he died last week. I was a big fan of his Top Cow work (Witchblade and The Darkness) and really loved his art style because it is what I personally strove to do when before I gave up trying to be a cartoonist.
Yeah, he had been sick for some time. I read that Wizard article a year or two back after his relapse, and it was a hard read...he was talking about going to cons, but being too weak to stand. I was pulling for him. Shame that he's gone.
"I could drown the pain, and drink upon commuter trains, and here you stand in eastern standard time" - Mike Doughty