By: Catherynne M. Valente

The whore to Annie Oakley’s virgin in American myth.

By: Jacob Mikanowski

He invented a funny avatar of passive resistance.

By: Alix Lambert

Sometimes it pays a man to keep his eyes closed.

By: Joshua Glenn

He bridged the gap between two eras of science fiction.

By: Jerrold Freitag

He presaged barbarity by pointing out abuses to the German language.

By: Gary Panter

His cartoons ring a very specific important curdled cultural alarm bell.

By: Jerrold Freitag

How to act right and focus in the face of meaning­lessness.

By: Brian Berger

Spare, coiled works of un­settling philosoph­ical rigor

By: Alix Lambert

Model, artist, photo­graph­er, surrealist, war correspon­dent.

By: Brian Berger

Her dramatic potential was revealed in literary adaptations.

By: Tucker Cummings

It’s always “Posh and Becks,” rarely “Becks and Posh.”

By: Mark Kingwell

There is a kind of artist whose career makes no sense.

By: Devin McKinney

She was the elusive study of vastly differing auteurs.

By: Tor Aarestad

Not as smarmy as Eddie Haskell, or as supercilious as Ferris Bueller

By: Lynn Peril

The Groovies with and without Loney were different forces of nature.