I could have sworn she had been discussed before on HN, but I must have hallucinated it from reading Carl Svensson's article, linked in the article.

But that didn't mention that she had died. Sad, she definitely deserved more recognition when she was alive.

One of the reasons I didn't like the modern cartoony artwork rework for Monkey Island. The original had some really fine pixel art, not least the portraits.

You're not hallucinating, she was mentioned in an article on DPaint last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45144129

Yeah, she got mentioned in about 10 threads in the last eight years, this first dedicated one included.