About a month back, I read that Dylan Williams was sick again with can­cer, and the med­ical bills were pil­ing up.  There was a gen­eral move to buy comics from Sparkplug in order to help off­set the bills a bit.  Then last week, Jason Leivian at Floating World started a fundraiser that involved get­ting artists to draw Philip K. Dick book cov­ers, and then auc­tion­ing giclee prints of them, and the orig­i­nal art too.

Then, this Monday night, I fin­ished up my own con­tri­bu­tion,  Eye in the Sky, and was get­ting ready to send it to Jason when I read that Dylan had died.  And that was a sur­prise.  I hadn’t even con­sid­ered that he might die. Marathon can­cer treat­ment, huge med­ical bills, crush­ing debt, bank­ruptcy, poverty — these things were there, but death wasn’t even on the table.   But there it is.  And, it’s always there, sit­ting right on the table.  The bills and debt are still there on the table, now they belong to Dylan’s wife.  And so I urge every­one to buy some art, and help her out.

Dylan, I’m sorry this was late, I wish you could have seen it.  I think you would have liked it.  I’m going to keep finger-walking my way through long boxes.  I hope ghosts are real, and I hope you just met all the dead cartoonists.