Didn't know he passed away.

I didn't get into his work through EC Comics but instead heard great things about Something Wicked This Way Comes, bought it, and thought it was fantastic.

Didn't know how much he contributed to Twilight Zone, EC, as well as how much he influenced others.

RIP

Sad news.

My first exposure to his work was back in 1980. The Martian Chronicles made-for-tv miniseries starring Rock Hudson, Darren McGavin, Bernadette Peters, Roddy McDowall. I waited for weeks for the one copy in our school library to get returned. Nowhere near as good as the book, but it was wicked strange sci-fi for me as a kid. We read The Veldt, and Dandelion Wine in lit class.

My favorite Bradbury book is a collection of his essays on creativity, called "Zen and the Art of Writing" and a while back, I picked up a copy of Green Shadows, White Whale, but I haven't read it yet, started it a few times, but got distracted by other stuff. It's a novel about Bradbury's experiences with John Huston making Moby Dick in Ireland. I'll probably pick it up again, now it may take on a different perspective.

"Dandelion Wine" is a beautiful novel.

At the moment, I'm reading "I Sing the Body Electric," a collection of Bradbury's short stories.

I remember reading "Dandelion Wine" a few years ago, and was very impressed with it both for its emotion as well as its prescience. Bradbury's story was so evocative of life in the 1920s (he was born in 1920) that I was surprised to learn he was still alive 90 years later.