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Gahan Allen Wilson

Gahan Allen Wilson (1930 - 2019) was active/lived in Illinois, New York.  Gahan Wilson is known for Magazine cartoon drawing.

"Gahan Wilson, Vividly Macabre Cartoonist, Dies at 89: His work — seen in National Lampoon, Playboy, The New Yorker and other magazines — was full of visual surprises and black humor. Online Obituary of The New York Times, by Neil Genzlinger, Nov. 22, 2019

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, “I’ve passed your complaints along to the captain,” while in the background the captain, a violent-looking pirate, approaches.

A man in a doctor’s office is reading an eye chart that says, in letters   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 9282 characters.]  Artist bio

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