The Best of Gahan Wilson

The Best of Gahan Wilson
Author: Gahan Wilson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2004
Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
ISBN: 9781887424875

Sure to incite a quiver of laughter or a shiver, this macabre collection of the best and most hilarious examples of Wilson's jaundiced humor includes his wry, illustrated essays on such topics as childhood fears and human tourists in space.

Gahan Wilson Sunday Comics

Gahan Wilson Sunday Comics
Author: Gahan Wilson
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2013-09-07
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1606996126

Gahan Wilson is probably best known for his macabre Playboy cartoons, filled with charming monsters, goofy mad scientists, and melting victims, and his cutting-edge work in the National Lampoon, but he’s also one of the most versatile cartoonists alive whose work has appeared in a wide range of media venues. Gahan Wilson Sunday Comics is Wilson’s assault from within: His little-known syndicated strip that appeared in America’s newspapers between 1974 an 1976. Readers must have been startled to find Wilson’s freaks, geeks, and weirdos nestled among family, funny-animal, and soap opera offerings. (The term “zombie strip” ― a strip that has long outlived its original creator ― takes on a whole new meaning in Wilson’s hands.) While each strip, at first glance, appears to be a standard, color Sunday strip (albeit without panel borders), each Sunday Comic is a collection of one-panel gag cartoons, delineated in Wilson’s brilliantly controlled wiggly-but-sophisticated pen line. The last gag cartoon on each Sunday is part of a recurring series, either “Future Funnies” or “The Creep.” Some Sundays are a freewheeling mélange of board meetings, monsters, and cavemen (with cameos by Wilson’s Kid character from Nuts, his gimlet-eyed view of childhood, collected last year by Fantagraphics), while others riff on a topic or subject (clocks, plants, wallpaper, etc.). As is his wont, Wilson mines the blackest of black comedy in the banal horror of human nature.

Unnatural Creatures

Unnatural Creatures
Author: Neil Gaiman
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 481
Release: 2013-06-13
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1408845458

Chosen and introduced by Neil Gaiman, this thoroughly beguiling collection of short stories is inhabited by an amazing menagerie of creatures from myth, legend and dark imagination The griffin, the sunbird, manticores, unicorns – all manner of glorious creatures never captured in zoos, museums or photographs are packed vividly into this collection of stories. Neil Gaiman has included some of his own childhood favourites alongside stories classic and modern to spark the imagination of readers young and old. All contributors have given their work free to benefit Dave Eggers' literacy charity, 826DC. Includes stories by: Peter S. Beagle, Anthony Boucher, Avram Davidson, Samuel R. Delany, Neil Gaiman, Maria Dahvana Headley, Nalo Hopkinson, Diana Wynne Jones, Megan Kurashige, E. Nesbit, Larry Niven, Nnedi Okorafor, Saki, Frank R. Stockton, Gahan Wilson, E. Lily Yu.

Gahan Wilson's Monsters' Party

Gahan Wilson's Monsters' Party
Author: Gahan Wilson
Publisher: iBooks
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2003
Genre: American wit and humor, Pictorial
ISBN:

Got a craving for cranial matter? Need to dip your chip in the saliva of a witch? Caught between a skull and a hard place? Have we got a cartoonist for you! Humorously demented cartoons by Gahan Wilson have been delighting the readers of The New Yorker, Playboy and National Lampoon for decades. Now, for a mere pittance, you can enjoy the best musings from this mad monster of the wild and the weird in the privacy of your own cave, hovel or castle. Cannibals around the world have celebrated the clever cartoons of Gahan Wilson. Now it's your turn!

Nuts

Nuts
Author: Gahan Wilson
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
Total Pages: 145
Release: 2011-10-17
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1606994549

Remember how baffling, terrifying, and sad childhood really was? Now you can laugh at it. In this thematically and narratively linked series of one-page stories originally published in the National Lampoon’s “Funny Pages” section throughout the 1970s, the master of the macabre eschewed his usual ghouls, vampires, and end-of-the-world scenarios for a wry, pointed look at growing up normal in the real, yet endlessly weird world. This is essentially a lost Gahan Wilson graphic novel from the 1970s and '80s. Watch as our stoic, hunting-cap-wearing protagonist (known only as “The Kid”) copes with illness, disappointment, strange old relatives, the disappointment of Christmas, life-threatening escapades, death, school, the awfulness of camp, and much more ― all delineated in Wilson’s roly-poly, sensual, delicately hatched line.

Gahan Wilson

Gahan Wilson
Author: Gahan Wilson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2009
Genre: Art
ISBN:

Gahan Wilson is among the most popular, widely-read and beloved cartoonists in the history of the medium, whose career spans the second half of the 20th century. His work has been seen by hundreds of millions of people in the pages of Playboy, The New Yorker, Punch, The National Lampoon and many other magazines. He is revered for his playfully sinister take on childhood, adulthood, men, women - and monsters. This three-volume set contains every cartoon Wilson ever drew for Playboy, along with all his prose fiction and text-and-art features.

Gahan Wilson's the Ultimate Haunted House

Gahan Wilson's the Ultimate Haunted House
Author: Nancy A. Collins
Publisher: Eos
Total Pages: 212
Release: 1996
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780061053153

Inspired by the artwork of Gahan Wilson, one of the greatest macabre artists of our time, this thrilling new anthology is a consummate collaboration between Wilson and leading horror writers and features 13 new stories, each exploring a different room of the haunted house. Contributors include Nancy A. Collins, Kathe Koja, Gregory Nicoll and T.E.D. Klein.

The Big Book of Freaks

The Big Book of Freaks
Author: Gahan Wilson
Publisher: Dc Comics
Total Pages: 222
Release: 1996
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 9781563892189

/Gahan Wilson Enchanted or evil, lucky or cursed, freaks have always held a special place in society. Now noted cartoonist Gahan Wison tackles this subject with uncanny expertise and insight. Inside are freaks of the past, such as the cyclops; well known freaks of recent eras, such as the Elephant Man; and potential future freaks created through genetic manipulation. Graphic novel format. Mature readers.

A Night in the Lonesome October

A Night in the Lonesome October
Author: Roger Zelazny
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-09
Genre: Characters and characteristics in literature
ISBN: 9781788424769

"In the murky London gloom, a knife-wielding gentleman prowls the midnight streets with his faithful watchdog Snuff - gathering together the grisly ingredients they will need for an upcoming ancient and unearthly rite. And all manner of players, both human and undead, are preparing to participate."--Publisher.

The Rejection Collection

The Rejection Collection
Author: Matthew Diffee
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2010-05-11
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1416938710

Each week about fifty New Yorker cartoonists submit ten ideas, yielding five hundred cartoons for no more than twenty spots in the magazine. Arguably the most brilliant single-panel-gag cartoonists in the world create a bunch of cartoons every week that never see the light of day. These rejects were piling up in the dusty corners of studios all over the country. Sam Gross, who has been contributing since 1962, has more than 12,000 rejected cartoons. (Seriously. He's been numbering every single cartoon he's ever submitted to The New Yorker since the very beginning.) Enter editor Matthew Diffee. He tapped his fellow cartoonists, asking them to rescue these hilarious lost gems. From the artists' stacks of all-time favorite rejects, Diffee handpicked the standouts -- the cream of the crap -- and created The Rejection Collection, a place where good ideas go when they die. Too risqué, silly, or weird for The New Yorker, the cartoons in this book offer something no other collection has: They have never been seen in print until now. With a foreword by New Yorker cartoon editor Robert Mankoff that explains the sound judgment, respectability, and scruples not found anywhere in these pages, and handwritten questionnaires that introduce the quirky character of each artist, The Rejection Collection will appeal to fans of The New Yorker...and to anyone with a slightly sick sense of humor.