“It is with a heavy heart that I must tell you that Drew Struzan has moved on from this world as of yesterday, October 13th. I feel it is important that you all know how many times he expressed to me the joy he felt knowing how much you appreciated his art.”

That message was left today on the official Instagram account of Drew Struzan , an artist beloved to generations of film fans for his striking movie posters. Struzan was 78 years old.

Although Struzan will be remembered best for a handful of painted posters he created for several of the biggest genre hits of the 1980s and ’90s, he was a very versatile artist. In addition to his film work, he also painted book and album covers. He could capture an actor’s likeness with uncanny accuracy, but he was also capable of exaggerating char

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