Obit: Gahan Wilson, Nov. 22, 2019

Subject: Obit: Gahan Wilson, Nov. 22, 2019
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 30 Nov 19 - 03:03 PM

I missed this last week - I've enjoyed his cartoons literally all of my life. RIP, Gahan Wilson

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/22/arts/gahan-wilson-dead.html

Take a look at the Google search results and I'm sure you'll recognize him instantly and find some of your favorites.

Subject: RE: Obit: Gahan Wilson, Nov. 22, 2019
From: Mrrzy
Date: 30 Nov 19 - 03:16 PM

So sorry to read this. We found what's been clogging your chimney...

Subject: RE: Obit: Gahan Wilson, Nov. 22, 2019
From: EBarnacle
Date: 30 Nov 19 - 03:42 PM

The cartoon Mrrzy referred to:

https://peelslowlynsee.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/gahan-wilson-0ct-1964-miss-emmy.jpg

How apt for the season.

Subject: RE: Obit: Gahan Wilson, Nov. 22, 2019
From: Severn
Date: 30 Nov 19 - 10:02 PM

I had stumbled upon and just finished reading a bizarre "Illustrated Mystery called "Eddy Deco's Last Caper" and greatly enjoyed it.

He'll be missed. A hero of sorts. May he .ride to heaven on an elevator with teeth after having been swallowed by an overstuffed chair.. .

Subject: RE: Obit: Gahan Wilson, Nov. 22, 2019
From: Rapparee
Date: 30 Nov 19 - 10:48 PM

Well, DAMN!

Subject: RE: Obit: Gahan Wilson, Nov. 22, 2019
From: Donuel
Date: 01 Dec 19 - 09:59 AM

Damn him, he's the one that warped my sense of humor for 40 years.

Subject: RE: Obit: Gahan Wilson, Nov. 22, 2019
From: Jeri
Date: 01 Dec 19 - 10:06 AM

I used to get a Mad Magazine, and examine all the pages for his tiny little marginal cartoons. I miss the magazine, and I'm sorry he's now gone, too.

Subject: RE: Obit: Gahan Wilson, Nov. 22, 2019
From: keberoxu
Date: 01 Dec 19 - 01:23 PM

I liked the one in the doctor's examination room.
"I think I've found your problem..."
and the poor man on the table, with his shirt off,
has got a small crocodile
clamped onto his back like a large leech.

Subject: RE: Obit: Gahan Wilson, Nov. 22, 2019
From: Donuel
Date: 01 Dec 19 - 04:24 PM

2 morbidly obese people are exuding rolls of fat from openings in their porch rocking chairs. Husband says to his wife "Sometimes I wish KFC hadn't moved in next door."

Subject: RE: Obit: Gahan Wilson, Nov. 22, 2019
From: Donuel
Date: 01 Dec 19 - 04:35 PM

A decrepid fisherman is casting a beastly creature with a fishing rod from a dock. "whats he doing?" asks a woman
A man says "he's casting expursions"

Subject: RE: Obit: Gahan Wilson, Nov. 22, 2019
From: Bill D
Date: 01 Dec 19 - 07:47 PM

A woman is walking her poodle one evening, and meets a guy in a trench coat going the other way with what looks like a Komodo dragon on a leash.

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Guy walking past a gate labeled "Crematorium" on an icy Winter day. There is a man at the gate sprinkling 'something' on the icy sidewalk.

Subject: RE: Obit: Gahan Wilson, Nov. 22, 2019
From: BobL
Date: 02 Dec 19 - 03:56 AM

The skeletized body of a blind man lies with its finger still on the doorbell labelled "Home for the Deaf".

Subject: RE: Obit: Gahan Wilson, Nov. 22, 2019
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 02 Dec 19 - 12:23 PM

"The trick is shucking them out of their shells."

Subject: RE: Obit: Gahan Wilson, Nov. 22, 2019
From: Donuel
Date: 02 Dec 19 - 02:02 PM

Imagine these drawings being made in his study which is practicly Victorian.

btw the trick is to remove the gas tank and allow to dry briefly before shucking from the front and rear.

Subject: RE: Obit: Gahan Wilson, Nov. 22, 2019
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 02 Dec 19 - 04:18 PM

Today's broadcast of Fresh Air is playing a piece about Wilson.

https://www.npr.org/2019/12/02/784132046/remembering-new-yorker-cartoonist-gahan-wilson

Subject: RE: Obit: Gahan Wilson, Nov. 22, 2019
From: Mrrzy
Date: 03 Dec 19 - 11:22 AM

I had no idea his were the tiny Mad cartoons!

Subject: RE: Obit: Gahan Wilson, Nov. 22, 2019
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 03 Dec 19 - 11:49 AM

I used to read Mad Magazine (what kid from that era didn't?) but I don't remember the cartoons Jeri and Mrrzy mentioned. And I'm not sure if I'm seeing any in a search (this seems to be a well-stocked Pinterest page). I'd love to see a link to what you're talking about - I imagine they appealed entirely to kids. :)

Subject: RE: Obit: Gahan Wilson, Nov. 22, 2019
From: keberoxu
Date: 03 Dec 19 - 02:05 PM

I'm with you, Stilly --
feeling as curious as you do.

Subject: RE: Obit: Gahan Wilson, Nov. 22, 2019
From: keberoxu
Date: 03 Dec 19 - 05:50 PM

This interview is dated 2011, you have to click to get each page. It's a beauty.

Subject: RE: Obit: Gahan Wilson, Nov. 22, 2019
From: CupOfTea
Date: 06 Dec 19 - 12:30 AM

Sigh. Another great one gone, with the more modern, and specific, cartoons of the macabre. I had a steady dose of Charles Addams from an early age though Mad Magazine never got into my house, but I did lots long hours of babysitting. I could always find the PLAYBOY stash to look at the cartoons (and sometimes read the fiction). I also remember Wilson's contribution to the SF anthology DANGEROUS VISIONS... A spot that grew...and grew... The only graphic art bit in that anthology series.

In some ways, her reminded me of James Thurber, just with the weird dialed up higher.

Joanne in sort of north-of-Thurber country

Subject: RE: Obit: Gahan Wilson, Nov. 22, 2019
From: Mrrzy
Date: 07 Dec 19 - 03:37 PM

Fester Bestertester et al....