We note with sadness the passing of one of comics’ brightest lights-Penciller/Inker/Visionary Editor and later Vice President/Executive Editor at DC. As an executive, he inevitably had some controversial moments but no one could ever fault his art and his love for the comics medium. Here are just a few of the many tributes spotted online this morning.

Here’s Dick, the ultimate mainstream comics guy, from Mike Friedrich’s experimental Star*Reach Comics with Stephanie Starr, a smarter variation on the “blonde heroine that can’t keep her clothes on” theme.

http://grantbridgestreet.blogspot.com/2010/03/stephanie-starr-in-in-light-of-future.html

Being the Charlton go-to guy that he is, Rip Jagger presents a nice selection of lesser-known Charlton covers by Dick Giordano from the 1950′s and 1960′s and even tosses in a few non-Charlton extras from more recently.

http://ripjaggerdojo.blogspot.com/2010/03/dick-giordano-last-action-hero.html

Here, from Thom Buchanan, is a seventies short story by Roy Thomas and Dick Giordano, slickly illustrated in stark contrast to the more familiar and stylized Frank Thorne version of the chain mail bikini-clad heroine.

http://mydelineatedlife.blogspot.com/2010/03/graphic-master.html

Finally today, a brief personal remembrance from Dick’s fellow artist and comics creator Michael Netzer.

http://michaelnetzer.com/mnop/?p=1380