1.   Flohic have paired up writers and artists, commissioning essays dedicated to particular works which are illustrated alongside.

2.   Essays were also commissioned from the writer Garry Wills and scholars like Neil Harris, a historian at the University of Chicago.

3.   Kaganoff and Spano commissioned essays and marveled at the response.

4.   Strub said debate had been raging for years in the gay community before he commissioned the essay, which ran with several others offering different perspectives.