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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGahan Wilson, Vividly Macabre Cartoonist, Dies at 89
Gahan Wilson, whose outlandish, often ghoulish cartoons added a bizarrely humorous touch to Playboy, The New Yorker, National Lampoon and other publications in the era when magazines propelled the cultural conversation, died on Thursday in Scottsdale, Ariz. He was 89.
His stepson Paul Winters said the cause was complications of dementia, which Mr. Wilson had been dealing with for years.
Mr. Wilson was known for visual surprises and black humor:
A steward tells a couple on a cruise ship, Ive passed your complaints along to the captain, while in the background the captain, a violent-looking pirate, approaches.
A man in a doctors office is reading an eye chart that says, in letters of diminishing size, I am an insane eye doctor and I am going to kill you now; behind him a crazed doctor prepares to attack him with a knife.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/22/arts/gahan-wilson-dead.html?utm_source=thisistrue.com
H2O Man
(73,536 posts)I loved his sense of humor.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)I loved his National Lampoon stuff. Never missed his target.
Grokenstein
(5,722 posts)ever since I read his strip "Nuts" in National Lampoon. Rest in peace, Gahan.
tblue37
(65,328 posts)scarletwoman
(31,893 posts)captain queeg
(10,171 posts)I too liked his somewhat dark humor.
burrowowl
(17,638 posts)ThoughtCriminal
(14,047 posts)TheBlackAdder
(28,183 posts).
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Tom Yossarian Joad
(19,227 posts)Lithos
(26,403 posts)I thought he had already died.
I have always loved his work.