Drew Struzan, the renowned artist whose iconic, hand-illustrated posters captured the crackling essence of classic movies stretching from "Star Wars" to "Harry Potter" and adorned the walls of every child who ever fell in love with cinema, is dead. He was 78 years old.

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Struzan's rise to prominence as a poster artist coincided with the advent of blockbuster franchise filmmaking. He was sought out by visionary directors like George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, and John Carpenter, and quickly became studios' go-to dreamweaver. Having grown up poor (he once told a journalist he learned to draw by sketching on toilet paper with a pencil), Struzan took this work gladly and never phoned in a single assignment. The keen e

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