Editing Gary Gygax (section)

== In popular culture ==
In 2000, Gygax voiced his cartoon self for the ''[[Futurama]]'' episode "[[Anthology of Interest I]]",<ref name="TheTimesObit" /><ref name=":0" /> that also included the voices of [[Al Gore]], [[Stephen Hawking]], and [[Nichelle Nichols]].<ref name="witwer" />{{rp|202}} Gygax appeared as his 8-bit self on ''[[Code Monkeys]]'' in 2007-8.<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Sjoberg|first=Lore|date=March 4, 2008|title=Gary Gygax, 'Father of D&D,' Dies at 69|magazine=Wired|url=http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2008/03/report-gary-gyg.html}}</ref> [[Stephen Colbert]], an avid ''D&D'' gamer in his youth,<ref name="30 Years" /> dedicated the last part of the March 5, 2008, episode of ''[[The Colbert Report]]'' to Gygax.<ref>{{Cite episode|title=R.I.P. Gary Gygax |series=The Colbert Report|series-link= The Colbert Report|date=March 6, 2008|url=https://www.cc.com/video/p6i1w8/the-colbert-report-r-i-p-gary-gygax|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210310112823/https://www.cc.com/video/p6i1w8/the-colbert-report-r-i-p-gary-gygax|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 10, 2021|language=en|access-date=December 29, 2022| last=Colbert| first=Stephen| season =4|issue =30| publisher = Comedy Central}}</ref>

Numerous names in ''D&D'', such as [[Zagyg]], Ring of Gaxx, and Gryrax, are anagrams or alterations of Gygax's name.<ref>{{cite journal|author=The staff of ''[[Dragon (magazine)|Dragon]]'' and ''[[Dungeon (magazine)|Dungeon]]'' magazines|date=September 2007|title=Unsolved Mysteries of D&D|journal=[[Dragon (magazine)|Dragon]]|volume=32|issue=4|pages=23–35}}</ref>