By: Adam McGovern

Plenilunio’s debt to, among others, actor Germán Robles.

By: William Nericcio

His simple cartoon was deeply sophisticated.

By: Adam McGovern

It’s the make-believe that we keep living in.

By: Mark Kingwell

He gave life to Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, and more!

By: Joe Alterio

His comics have a flavor of animation’s madness.

By: Joe Alterio

Eat your heart out, Indiana Jones.

By: Brian Berger

The greatest, funniest cartoons of New York’s gutter age.

By: Adam McGovern

His panels and characters are bigger on the inside than on the surface.

By: Peter Bebergal

He creates black-and-white surreal masterpieces.

By: Mark Kingwell

After 9/11, he mocked knee-jerk patriotism and dumb-ass foreign policy.

By: Adam McGovern

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

By: Gary Panter

His Frankenstein was serious, then comical, then scary.

By: Dan Nadel

Innumerable artists have based their entire careers on the briefest of his ideas.

By: John Holbo

This post is a sequel to a more informal post at Crooked Timber, in which I wrote: “A family friend, Susi, just turned 90. Since I’m home in Oregon, I attended the B-Day party. Her […]

By: Gary Panter

One of the most wigged-out artists on Earth.