By: Joshua Glenn

His Radium Age sf and fantasy influenced Lovecraft and Gygax.

By: Adam McGovern

The camera never smiled at her, and she’s not looking at you.

By: Tucker Cummings

It’s pretty hard to call a harp player a sell-out.

By: Lynn Peril

Orson Welles called her “the most exciting woman alive.”

By: Joe Alterio

Though he ended up on the world’s biggest stages, he was a mensch.

By: Tucker Cummings

He was dis­illusioned by the materialism of modern Japan.

By: Gary Panter

His Frankenstein was serious, then comical, then scary.

By: Jerrold Freitag

“I became a humorist out of rage, not kindness.”

By: Brian Berger

An anthropologist who studied “the muck.”

By: Jacob Mikanowski

He wanted to break the hegemony of Indo-European linguistics.

By: Joshua Glenn

He wrote cranky Radium Age science fiction parables.

By: Brian Berger

The painter’s substantial literary achievement is less well-known.

By: Lynn Peril

“Adventures Close to Home” became one fan’s anthem.

By: Robert Wringham

Awesome and devastating, yet naive and vulnerable.

By: Gary Panter

The Queen of the Beatniks produced a psych masterpiece in 1969.