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OMG! G for Graham
Have you ever read any of Gahan Wilson's cartoons? If you haven't...I can't really give you a good insight. He's sort of like....a pre-Far Side, but not exactly.There's an odd, twisted, creepy side to these...and I like many of them.Really.These are worth tracking down. Used book store, library, Amazon....local book store, whatever.Now be aware many of these are dated (This is volume 1 and they start at 1957. Still, I think you'll get most of them.Really.Enjoy...but maybe with the lights on and
The greatest collection of single-panel funnies ever published. One of the best books I've ever read. Laugh out loud funny!
Not my taste.
A wonderful, gorgeous, brilliant, macabre, and funny collection. Three hardcover volumes in slipcase, more than a thousand beautifully reproduced cartoons, almost all in vibrant color. Also contains several short stories and one travel piece (to Romania and Transylvania, on the trail of the historical Dracula), as well as a biographical article and a long interview. Worth every penny, although if you buy through Amazon, you can get a substantial discount. Neil Gaiman's intro to Vol. 2 rightly sa...
Gahan Wilson is one of my all-time heroes and this jaw-dropping collection of 50 years of his work in Playboy is an absolute joy. Beyond the fantabulousness of Wilson's content is the presentation. Fantagraphics has outdone themselves, courtesy of gifted designer Jacob Covey. The sturdy slipcase, with its Plexiglas window against which any one of the photo portrait back covers of the three volumes can be displayed, is a thing of beauty. The die-cut covers and chapter inserts add to the fun and b...
This incredible boxed set of three gorgeous hardcovers celebrates one of art's funniest and most disturbing cartoonists. Printed on archival-quality paper in both color and black & white, the handsome set includes not only all the legendary artist's cartoons, prose fiction and text-and-art features from Playboy, but also many of his strips from The New Yorker, Punch, The National Lampoon, and many other magazines. Gahan Wilson: 50 Years of Playboy Cartoons is the most comprehensive and attractiv...