By: Tim Carmody

He tapped into the era’s anxieties — crime, mechani­zation, new media.

By: Jen Collins

She cataloged the means by which the ego limits anxiety and displeasure.

By: Brian Berger

Much has been said of those like gods. Now hear her speak of Nixon and Reagan.

By: Brian Berger

That absolutely crucial center; that ear that could hear us all.

By: Peggy Nelson

He described a world that was nice… and rough.

By: Lynn Peril

A dancer by training, and an iconoclast by nature.

By: Brian Berger

“Master of the whimsical tone, the unexpected insight, the hidden bite.”

By: Lynn Peril

She was devoted to comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable.

By: Joe Alterio

His gameplay design questioned the medium’s bedrock assumptions.

By: David Smay

He generated fields of pure unexpected looniness.

By: Tom Nealon

He won the Giant Bible of Mainz in a poker game.

By: Peggy Nelson

It takes a satanic rocket scientist…

By: Joshua Glenn

“No Context” is an origin myth for Nobrow.

By: Alix Lambert

“What the hell is that?”

By: Joshua Glenn

“I aimed at the public’s heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.”