By: Tucker Cummings

He was dis­illusioned by the materialism of modern Japan.

By: Jerrold Freitag

“I became a humorist out of rage, not kindness.”

By: Brian Berger

An anthropologist who studied “the muck.”

By: Joshua Glenn

He wrote cranky Radium Age science fiction parables.

By: Robert Wringham

Awesome and devastating, yet naive and vulnerable.

By: Brian Berger

His journalism about white tenant farmers became “Let Us Now Praise Famous Men.”

By: Tucker Cummings

An uncontrollable fit of the giggles transitioning to bitter tears.

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.