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i'm very into cartoons moreso than comics. I do like comics (sequential art to be nerdily precise), it's just that my heart still belongs to the one panel gag geniuses like gahan w., charles adams, george price, george booth, larson, &cet. gahan is the beez kneez. ghastly humor is my poison.
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Some of these are black and white printings of color pieces that work better in color. One which I ran across in the collection for the first time – a shark in the bathtub - is very effective in black and white. Gahan does such effective things with negative narrative space.
Stephen King recommended book. Noted as "important to the genre we have been discussing" from Danse Macabre, published in 1981.
My all time favorite is included in this one: two worried-looking scientists wearing lab coats and holding clipboards are standing next to a flight simulator with a large full moon on the view screen above the control console. A rabid-looking werewolf is sitting in the command chair wearing an ill-fitting space suit. The caption redas: "I'm afraid this simulator test indicates that Commander Brent would be a poor choice for the Lunar Expedition." This is a collection of cartoons that I never tir...
Read on the passing of Gahan Wilson, some very funny and macabre drawings here.
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Why didn't I love this? Perhaps these would be best as stand alone posters, to let the dark flat stare simmer in you, and not let there be the chance that you'd read these quickly or pass through them looking for a laugh. I did love the dedication and the last page.