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Category: HiLo Heroes

Highbrows, lowbrows, nobrows, hilobrows.

Morris K. Jessup

By: Devin McKinney

A stargazing scholar and UFO-ologist.

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Oskar Kokoschka

By: Jerrold Freitag

Hitler’s most hated artist.

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Molly Picon

By: Brian Berger

Too Jewish for ethnically repressed Hollywood.

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Jackie Gleason

By: Adam McGovern

Like a brutal ballet dancer.

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Tetsumi Kudo

By: Gary Panter

Catastrophic collage boxes and birdcages.

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Meridel Le Sueur

By: Jerrold Freitag

The world isn’t worth selling your soul for.

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Dwayne McDuffie

By: Adam McGovern

He revolutionized a colonial pop-culture genre.

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Ernst Haeckel

By: Jacob Mikanowski

His informed predictions were mixed with wild speculation.

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Frederick Douglass

By: Adam McGovern

He warned that power concedes nothing without a struggle.

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E.L. Konigsburg

By: Robert Wringham

Freedom, adventure, resource­fulness, mischief.

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Gahan Wilson

By: Adam McGovern

His one-panel cartoons contained dystopian novels.

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Bob Marley

By: Jerrold Freitag

“Babylon system is the vampire”

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John Ford

By: Brian Berger

Entertainment, grand landscapes, and dialectical troubles.

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S.J. Perelman

By: Robert Wringham

Strutting, superior but somehow also self- deprecating.

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Lewis Carroll

By: Robert Wringham

Logic reigns supreme in Wonderland.

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