Very hard to process this right now. I've never seen this many journals spring up on my feed about one passing, evidence of how much he was loved... here's the initial one.
http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/8120166/

There are few people I know in the fandom with the same unbridled positivity and enthusiasm...I could always count on him for a smile at FC. And he was as talented as he was personable; back in the Keenspot days he was unwaveringly cranking complex storylines in fully-realized pagelength comics--a storytelling format most of us KS contemporaries only graduated to much later.

Kind of in denial ATM, burying myself in work as is typical right now. Sigh. But the void he left in this fandom will always be there, and unfortunately I'll catch up with it soon