He loved a good story, no matter what form it took.

The Lone Ranger

The Drill and the Secret Party

The Wooger Snatcher!

“It is our purpose to overthrow the capitalist system.”

Cúchulainn takes a Walk

The 12 books that inaugurated a great era in kids’ lit.

Replacing something shitty with something great.

An early appearance by a minor golden age hero.

He tested limits, courted demons, and thrashed it all out on the page.

Jackie vs. the House Un-American Activities Committee.

She loved waking up, quite alone, in a strange town.

Of the Princess in the Tower

“Silence Is Still the Order”

How the Philosopher borrowed a Body for Cúchulainn

Ukulele hepcats, 1919

The primary purpose of prison is not rehabilitation but repression.

Dougal

The Rat

Never before had images been so unsettlingly self-aware.

A gift for pacing and episodic structure, a deadpan sense of humor.

“There’s nothing like living in a bottle.”

His flat sub-ironic tone is at once his method and “message.”

How a Champion took up the Gage of King Goshawk