By: Elina Shatkin

The aviatrix who taught Amelia Earhart how to fly.

By: Lynn Peril

Prescient in her arguments for a plant-based diet.

By: Joshua Glenn

One of the first real scientists to write science fiction. FWIW.

By: Brian Berger

Forget everything you thought you knew about “Half-Pint” Jaxon.

By: Adam McGovern

Comics of deceptive simplicity and un-dupli­catable eloquence.

By: Elina Shatkin

A tattooed, cigar-chomping, cross-dressing, knife-collecting speed demon.

By: Jacob Mikanowski

He was part of the bad old post­modernism, in a good way.

By: Brian Berger

He preserved and disseminated oral culture.

By: Mike Fleisch

He aimed for total objectivity and compassion.

By: Tucker Cummings

He courageously shared his sexual predilections with the world.

By: Adam McGovern

His stoic pulp and stylish brutality elevated superhero comics.

By: Alix Lambert

His wit, his sculpture, and his being have proven influential.

By: Brian Berger

Twisting, wry and dolorous laments.

By: Mark Kingwell

He was haunted by his memories of destroying a Benedictine monastery.

By: Mark Kingwell

Media, culture, and ideology are the battleground of the soul.