Gahan Wilson
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 heâ€™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 Wilsonâ€™s assault from within: His little-known syndicated strip that appeared in Americaâ€™s newspapers between 1974 an 1976. Readers must have been startled to find Wilsonâ€™s freaks, geeks, and weirdos nestled among family, funny-animal, and soap opera offerings. (The term â€œzombie stripâ€ â€” a strip that has long outlived its original creator â€” takes on a whole new meaning in Wilsonâ€™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 Wilsonâ€™s brilliantly controlled wiggly-but-sophisticated pen line. The last gag cartoon on each Sunday is part of a recurring series, either â€œFuture Funniesâ€ or â€œThe Creep.â€ Some Sundays are a freewheeling mÃ©lange of board meetings, monsters, and cavemen (with cameos by Wilsonâ€™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. ,Gahan Wilsonâ€™s Sunday Comics, collects, for the first time, each and every one of these strips, luxuriating across a 12â€ x 6â€ landscape format, with Fantagraphicsâ€™ trademark high production values, innovative design, and succinct historical commentary.
Sequential Art,Comics,Humor,Horror
Gahan Wilson Sunday Comics