Now it's just a little bit softer and more indirect to say that someone has passed away rather than saying he's dead or he died which sometimes it can sound quite direct and maybe a little disrespectful as well.
I jokingly have said I would never become the Fat Elvis and I don't mean that with any disrespect but I love what I do and the audience deserve the best of me and I can only give the best.
While it became rarer to find illustrations accompanying new works of literary fiction in the mid 20th century, book illustration continued to evolve in less traditional, and often less respectable forms.