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Category: HiLo Heroes

Highbrows, lowbrows, nobrows, hilobrows.

Spike Jonze

By: David Smay

Wondrous things pressing against the seams of the everyday…

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Yoshikazu Ebisu

By: Gary Panter

One of the most wigged-out artists on Earth.

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Karl Wallinger

By: Devin McKinney

If he can make a comeback, maybe the human race can too.

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Ray Johnson

By: Franklin Bruno

“The most famous unknown artist in New York.”

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John Kenneth Galbraith

By: Mark Kingwell

A Veblen­esque tartness, under­written by a sincere commit­ment to a better world.

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P.G. Wodehouse

By: Amanda French

His writing was a testament to the joy of frustration.

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E.E. Cummings

By: Tucker Cummings

His poetry still seems experimental and forward-thinking today.

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Nicholas Roerich

By: Jacob Mikanowski

“An indescribable gamut of colors!” said the first cosmonaut.

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Dan Savage

By: Jerrold Freitag

He took down Rick Santorum and started the It Gets Better project.

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Edward P. Jones

By: Adam McGovern

He doesn’t presume to know who made us but he can tell what makes us how we are.

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Eddie Cochran

By: Lynn Peril

He wrote an immortal anthem to teen freedom.

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Michelangelo Antonioni

By: Mike Fleisch

Separation, and then the language of separation, were his subjects.

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Joyce Johnson

By: Brian Berger

Her empathetic brilliance is too often overlooked.

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Joseph Valachi

By: Brian Berger

He wanted to destroy “the whole — how would you explain it — that exists.”

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Joe Kubert

By: David Smay

His expressive line slashes to the emotional core of every scene.

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