I've just learned, via Keith R.A. DeCandido's blog, that noted SF/Fantasy artist Tim Hildebrandt has died from complications of diabetes at the age of 67.

With his twin brother Greg, Tim Hildebrandt was one of the great iconic SFF artists of the '70s, painting one of the famous Star Wars posters as well as many, many Tolkien covers, calendar paintings and other pieces. (I can still picture my first paperback Hobbit in my mind's eye, and it had a Hildebrandt cover.) They also wrote and illustrated the fantasy novel Urshurak (with Jerry Nichols), and made piles of fantasy art, separately and together, in the decades since.

He will certainly be missed. Our condolences to his friends and family.