Al Williamson (March 21, 1931 – June 12, 2010) was an American cartoonist, comic book artist and illustrator specializing in adventure, Western, science fiction and fantasy. His well regarded run on Flash Gordon in the mid-1960s earned a “Best Comic Book Cartoonist” award from the National Cartoonists Society, and Williamson drew the daily comic strip Secret Agent Corrigan from 1967 until 1980.