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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By Steven Heller / The Bulletin
November 2, 2009
Don Ivan Punchatz, whose surreal art was splashed on popular horror and science-fiction paperbacks, magazines and the first "Star Wars" film poster, influencing a generation of illustrators, died Oct. 22 near his home in Arlington, Texas. He was 73.
The cause was cardiac arrest, said....