By: Devin McKinney

An anthropologist of the elusive essence.

By: William Nericcio

Clean-lined, india ink-borne graphic magic.

By: Joshua Glenn

A philosopher who didn’t take anything seriously.

By: Erik Davis

A “tawny student of Esoterics.”

By: Mark Kingwell

He diagnosed “problems in living” — not mental illness.

By: William Nericcio

Her feats of transub­stantiation were mesmerizing.

By: Brian Berger

He played long, luminous tones on his trumpet.

By: Mark Kingwell

Imaginative play that constructs a world available to experience.

By: Brian Berger

In search of roles commensurate with his ability and ethics.

By: Gary Panter

Optically giving, mind-teasing, unabashedly beautiful paintings.

By: Erik Davis

He brought countercultural humor into sword and sorcery.

By: Devin McKinney

She unhooked the hooks and straps of women’s psychosocial bind.

By: Brian Berger

His talent stretched back to Yiddish theater.

By: William Nericcio

His is a vision of Eden reimagined by Hieronymus Bosch.

By: Franklin Bruno

She quietly contributed to dozens of nouvelle vague classics.