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Gahan Wilson

50 Years of Playboy Cartoons

By Gahan Wilson, Hugh Hefner (Preface), Neil Gaiman (Preface)

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| Hardcover | 9781606992982

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Few cartoonists ever had as lavish a tribute as a three-volume-slipcased collection, but few are as deserving as Wilson. Collecting 50 years worth of his monthly single page gag cartoons from Playboy, it's a definitive overview of a remarkable talent and viewpoint. Considering the timeframe, Wilson'Continue

Few cartoonists ever had as lavish a tribute as a three-volume-slipcased collection, but few are as deserving as Wilson. Collecting 50 years worth of his monthly single page gag cartoons from Playboy, it's a definitive overview of a remarkable talent and viewpoint. Considering the timeframe, Wilson's fabled black humor and art style remain remarkably consistent—as time passes, the drawing renders into slightly blobbier shapes that retain all of their wit just the same—but the source and degree of the humor is a constant. Although best known for his slightly lugubrious subjects—monsters, witches, corpses, vampires and skeletons are frequent visitors to these pages—Wilson also targets consumerism, materialism, and other basic human foibles. As publisher Gary Groth writes in a biography in the third volume, He has...constructed a world that is eerily family, unsettlingly recognizable and lethally consistent. Beautifully designed and printed, the books contain cut-out pages, and the slipcase itself becomes a window for a trapped photo of Wilson. Text extras include Wilson's prose short stories and an appreciation by Neil Gaiman. If these three volumes are a bit much for one sitting, periodic dipping in will always satisfy.

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  • Gahan Wilson: 50 Years of Playboy Cartoons

    Unless you're a Playboy reader, chances are you've never seen any of the 800-plus fantastic cartoons in this massive three-volume collection of one-panel gags by Gahan Wilson, all of which first appeared in that once-scandalous girlie mag. And who ad ... (read full critics)

    barnesandnoble published on Fri, 3 Sep 2010

  • The Cleft and Other Odd Tales

    Gahan Wilson? Isn't he the guy who does those weird cartoons? Well, yes. Examples of Gahan Wilson's delightfully fiendish visual imagination are collected in two (unfortunately cheaply produced) collections from Forge Books, Still Weird and Even Weir ... (read full critics)

    infinityplus published on Tue, 31 Aug 2010

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  • English Books
  • Hardcover 942 Pages
  • Edition: 1
  • ISBN-10: 1606992988
  • ISBN-13: 9781606992982
  • Publisher: Fantagraphics
  • Pub date: Nov 10, 2009
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