Larry Leiker aka Wizard 1942 - 2022

[elgi]

So sorry to hear this sad news. Larry, a.k.a wizard509, will be very much missed.

[Barbara B]

Although there are precious few photos of Larry, Gary thought that because Wizard was such a magnificent painter, he wouldn't mind being remembered as the hero in a painting.

[Rik]

So very sad.
Like many others, I never met Larry.
But he genuinely seemed like a kind person.
I will certainly miss the banter I had with Larry.

[ernie-f]

Another great person has left us.
Fare well, Larry.

[Gare]

Help me keep a promise that we all got behind ironically, begun by Larry-

In-memory-of-Bill-Taylor-How-about-a-Horse-font&highlight=Bill+Taylora decade ago. At that time, friends of Bill Taylor agreed that a typeface with Cherokee patterns and symbols would be a great idea.

I am going to do it over the weekend. Mike W. contributed some designs and I have a font making program if any of us remember the Fonts forum , and will use the weekend to complete te tribute.

Here's were someone can help me: we agreed the typeface was to be free, but also give it to the Cherokee Nation to sell, so maybe if we can close that deal (HELP ME!, said the Fly ), we do not offer the font for free. Perhaps we could set up a mechanism by which any donations that come to tg could be forwarded to the Cherokees.

I'll can and will do the font. I could use someone with connections and marketing skills very shortly to make this tribute to Bill mean something.

I see Barbara posted a painting I did with ArtRage to honor Larry. Let's do the same remembering Bill Taylor. Yes?




Bill's ancestry was part Cherokee; let us not forget the the Trail of Tears

TIA,

Gary

[Penny O'Rorke]

Larry will be very much missed, a lovely and talented man. Deepest sympathies to his family.

[xtom]

Aw man, RIP Larry/Wizard.

[gwpriester]

OG Maybe Soquili (Bill Taylor) should be a separate thread?