The hyperreal detail of his sci-fi comics anticipated hi-res CGI.

He imagined the Internet and other impossibilities.

The suffragist who wrote Radium Age science fiction.

Harris is the Jack Lemmon of now.

The nonsensical nihilist who reduces the tattoo ad absurdum.

Not only a seminal post-punk bassist, but a cool geek.

An explorer in an age with ever fewer frontiers.

“Monkey government!”

He just may be pop-culture’s first postmodern man.

“Perfection to D, is quite essential / He has to live up to his potential.”

“Humour can get in under the door while serious­ness is still fumbling at the handle.”

New York, Belgium, the Symbolists, Dylan, Tintin, vice, punk.

His pet lobster was guerrilla street theater

“Do your thing and don’t care if they like it.”

A display of multi-tasking that one watches live in a state of disbelief.

Stephen Colbert’s funny comes from an invention: “Stephen Colbert.”

The visionary electronic composer who wrote the DR. WHO theme.

An almost aboriginal, somewhat psychedelic, particularly populist style.

He reclaimed the rhythms of the body and the industrial machine.

His antics are merely the by-product of the tortured mangle that is his mind.

His films came from a planet called Baltimore.

Walter Benjamin “allowed me to survive Heidegger.”

The two things she loved most: her husband and an exploding volcano.

He invented the breakbeat, a key element of hip-hop.