By: Tor Aarestad

She watches the world and reacts, viscerally, and she is us.

By: David Smay

Dreaminess and lyricism in horror.

By: Devin McKinney

He gave himself to Tiny Tim, and Tiny gave himself to us.

By: Mark Kingwell

She opened the floodgates of televisual self-parody.

By: Brian Berger

“Ward Bond is a shit but he’s our favorite shit.”

By: Tor Aarestad

Today he would publish Pussy Riot rather than Turgenev.

By: Mark Kingwell

“solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short”

By: Mike Fleisch

He “invented a new language, true to the nature of film.”

By: Gary Panter

He abandoned kids’ comics and pioneered Pop.

By: Devin McKinney

He made it his business to be provocatively uncongenial.

By: Tucker Cummings

He brought charm to his bitterest characters.

By: Tom Nealon

He locates the key to our humanity within the permutations of our weirdness.

By: Devin McKinney

An outlaw hero who found mainstream fame.

By: Adrienne Crew

He shot the most glamorous photo of all time.

By: Franklin Bruno

Stax, and soul, wouldn’t have been the same without him.