By: Matthew Battles

The African legacy of the father of country music.

By: Tom Nealon

“I need to start writing pieces about other people’s problems.”

By: Lucy Sante

Jules Verne on laudanum, and four other writers rolled into one.

By: Mimi Lipson

When trash meets art.

By: Alix Lambert

“Everything that I know, I publish.”

By: Gary Panter

Everyone sprouts big square teeth when they’re angry!

By: Brian Berger

As a painter, he was more poet than architect.

By: Amanda French

Interested in all manner of things, from cancer to clementines.

By: Amanda French

A tireless activist, funny and trenchant.

By: Alix Lambert

“The truth has a power greater than a hundred lies.”

By: Matthew Battles

A vision of knowledge and cooperation, taken by the wind.

By: Chris Lanier

His line carries the express­ive shab­biness of scratch and squiggle.

By: Brian Berger

“We play unsegregated music.”

By: Greg Rowland

A single glimpse of his commix will send you insane.

By: Mimi Lipson

She excelled at rapacious clingers, albatrosses, and bad mothers.