By: Joshua Glenn

Without his fantasy fiction, no Dungeons & Dragons

By: Mark Kingwell

He called the United States a “moronic inferno,” a phrase that stuck.

By: Peggy Nelson

An unshakable belief in the shakiness of reality.

By: Robert Wringham

The Dice canon is all about monkey business.

By: Jerrold Freitag

All of religion is crazy — not just the crazy parts.

By: William Nericcio

He deconstructed Mexico and “Mexico” for a world audience.

By: Brian Berger

Awesome and devastating, yet naive and vulnerable.

By: Jerrold Freitag

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

By: Adam McGovern

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

By: Brian Berger

Her empathetic brilliance is too often overlooked.

By: Barbara Bogaev

Le Chien Andalou meets your Uncle Marv’s home movies

By: Alix Lambert

He wasn’t crushed by exhaustion, frost, hunger, and endless humiliations.

By: Alix Lambert

“It’s not necessarily a happy world. We need to talk about this stuff.”

By: Barbara Bogaev

Her audacity and un­willing­ness to please remain shocking.

By: Robert Wringham

His anti-hero was a portly, dissolute art dealer.