I met Brian Alvey in 1987 around a pool table in my college dorm. His wit and charisma drew me in, during one of our introductory conversations I mentioned to him an excellent sketch in the halls of the art building which looked to me like a medieval hunter with a skull on his head. Being the late 80s I was struck by the head shot as great D&D style art. Brian said, "Really ?, I drew that". Three weeks later in his dorm room, I accused him of stealing the drawing because I still didn't believe it was his work -- until after he showed me his sketch book.

I like to joke that Brian introduced me to Art and I introduced him to Computers, and he got the better end of the deal. Even though the Warrior System didn't get very far on my PC Clone, and I left Texas too soon after we met, I never lost the desire to work with Brian and the last year has been remarkable. AOL is losing a true visionary. I am overjoyed that after 20 years of "becoming respectable and respected", he is in the position to pursue his passion of comic books with all of his energies, I am sure he will do for comics what he did for blogs and online publishing will never be the same.