RIP: Bob Guccione

Any fan of the defunct but much loved OMNI magazine will take this news as a body blow. Magazine founder Bob Guccione has died of cancer Wednesday in a Plano, Texas hospital.

Boing Boing blog writes:

• A Rolling Stone profile from 2004 is worth a revisit: Bob Guccione profile here.

Of course those that think they know what they are talking about will call to less vaunted projects, but if one is to be judged by the influence you had on a genre, then Guccione deserves his 15 minutes in the sun.

Wikipedia entry here Boing Boing article here