By: Peggy Nelson

Don Martin and the sound of satire

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Clowes is an avatar of a lost generation: The OGXers.

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One of the consum­mate world builders in comics and sci-fi.

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Inventive, smart, funny, poignant, brilliantly weird.

By: Joe Alterio

He invented the manic, spongey cartoon style we take for granted.

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He revolutionized a colonial pop-culture genre.

By: Adam McGovern

His one-panel cartoons contained dystopian novels.

By: Lynn Peril

Devastatingly funny one week and bittersweet the next.

By: William Nericcio

Clockwork micro and macro tragedies awash in self-awareness.

By: William Nericcio

His is a vision of Eden reimagined by Hieronymus Bosch.

By: William Nericcio

He transmuted Barthes-like semiotic insights into comic schtick.

By: Adam McGovern

Hotspot’s debt to Burt Ward

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Hellena’s debt to Eva Peron

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Underboss’s debt to F.W. Murnau’s FAUST

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Lidia’s debt to Scilla Gabel