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Gahan Wilson's :Out there (Fantagraphic books)I grew up with Gahan Wilson's work in every form of media that one could imagine in print. Normally in more adult volumes such as the New Yorker, Playboy and National Lampoon. His work in spirit has always reminded me of a cross between Edward Gorey and Charles Addams but ina stilted decaying style that is very organic and almost plushie like a fabric stuffed universe.This work features over 250 cartoons that Wilson drew in his years with magazines s...
I recall the other Gahan Wilson collection I've read, And Then We'll Get Him!, being a more consistently great selection of his cartoon work. That's probably to be expected of a collection that isn't as focused on a single periodical, though. The unique value of this book, for me, is that it contains samples of both his text fiction and his book reviews. These are sides of his creativity that I hadn't experienced before, and I find he's quite original and talented. That material also gave me a l...
Isn't it strange, the things we learn to love? My immense fondness for Gahan Wilson started when my mom brought a second hand copy of A Night in the Lonesome October home. I vaguely remember that I wasn't meant to keep it, but I've forgotten where it was supposed to go. At some point, my uncle gave me And Then We'll Get Him, and I was hooked. When my boss weeded our copy of The Best of Gahan Wilson from our library, I gave her a dollar for it and added it to my collection. I always read Mr. Wils...
A book filled with Gahan Wilson's cartoons along with some of his short fiction and reviews. I got so many strange looks from my husband every time I burst out laughing especially when he was talking.
The Laugh MacabreIf anything a too short selection of the smiling grim that was the cartoonist Gahan Wilson. But wait there is more. A selection of his very short stories, also the hatchlings of a beatific weird mind. Then a selections of the review he prepared mostly for the magazine Fantasy and Science Fiction. Recommendation: Gahan Wilson’s Out there is a major must for his fans and a tour de Ghoul for anyone with an off center sense of humor.Ok here is the truth, I got this as a splurge pur
I feel as though I grew up with Gahan Wilson. Not sure where I first saw his work. It goes that far back! Perhaps it was sneaking a peek at a Playboy magazine when I was twelve years old; or perhaps it was the first time I purchased an issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction or National Lampoon.Anyway, Wilson's themes resonate with me. For one thing, he's obviously been heavily influenced by Lovecraft and Charles Addams. I grew up on their stuff, too! Furthermore, I admire how he can
I am uncertain how to rate this book. Wilson's work, as always, is worth five stars. I am less than happy about Fantagraphics' product. For one thing, I would have preferred straightforward black and white reproduction instead of purple and white: the latter has a slightly washed-out effect. For another, there is some deterioration of line detail relative to earlier publications. More annoying still is the insistence, both on the cover blurb and in the introduction, that this is the first time m...
I knew before that Wilson was a supremely talented cartoonist, turns out he was also a talented writer, and the kind of generous, passionate critic who makes his entire genre better with his enthusiasm. His loss is even more keenly felt.
An interesting mix of Wilson’s work. The single panel gags are resoundingly great. His art and sense of humor are a weird blend of Gary Larson, Edward Gorey, and Shel Silverstein. I didn’t realize he wrote short stories and critical literature, too, which was an interesting surprise. His short fiction is in the same vein as his cartoons but didn’t do much for me behind the dog story and the Mandarin one. It was a little weird that Fantagraphics included Wilson’s critical work given that it’s lit...
Despite (or more likely, because of) their macabre and fantastical subject matter, the puffy figures and scratchy lines of Gahan Wilson fill me with a sense of deep, abiding comfort. I've recognized his work since I was very young, and seeing his cartoons makes me feel that, despite the terrifying, unfair and often gruesome nature of the world, all is somehow right. This collection of some of his sci-fi/fantasy cartoons, never before collected until now, filled me with delight. As a bonus, it in...
I'm giving this a very reluctant 2 stars.I normally like Gahan Wilson's illustrations a lot, but this isn't a great collections of them. While there are some absolutely hilarious one here, they're mostly filler commissioned for the Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy (none in color either! Wilson uses color in really subtle and sparing ways, and I was looking forward to some of that here). Some aren't even standalone comics, just single panel illustrations for atmosphere. The short stories a...
The illustrations he created for the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction are amazing. They are macabre and witty and some of them are just goofy. All of the stories he wrote of the magazine are there and some of them are quite good. I really liked the book reviews that were included as well. They showed a man who loved dark horror and was happy to spread the good news of certain books and authors.