By: Joshua Glenn

His Fu Manchu yarns succeeded by stoking readers’ fear of a Yellow Peril.

By: Adam McGovern

He revitalized comics by having read something else.

By: Tor Aarestad

Rollins is CEO, “Henry Rollins” is his product, plenitude is the priority.

By: Lynn Peril

He knew a thing or two about what grown-up women want.

By: Mike Fleisch

Curvy, writhing skin-coated volumes of muscle.

By: Joshua Glenn

“Flash Gordon” horrified literate, thoughtful young science fiction authors

By: Barbara Bogaev

A brazen, prevaricating health-food rapscallion.

By: David Smay

He wrote a fuck-you note to the 19th century. It was a scan­dalous hit.

By: Brian Berger

She starred in four films that made her a noir icon.

By: Tor Aarestad

His study of the cultural practices and mentalité of the poor was transformative.

By: Adam McGovern

Librettos as supernaturally sophisticated as her melodic sixth sense.

By: Mark Kingwell

Ironic bite, elegant judg­mentalism, cut-glass elegance

By: Adam McGovern

He clears away the worship that can cloud minds.

By: Peggy Nelson

Art was what happened betwixt brush and surface.

By: Gary Panter

Masterpieces of graphic provocation and subversion.