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Cartoonist Gahan Wilson, ‘the Wizard of Weird,’ Dies at 89
ktla ^ | 11/24/2019

Posted on 11/24/2019 2:16:44 PM PST by BenLurkin

Wilson gained fame with his offbeat drawings in magazines like Playboy, The New Yorker and National Lampoon.

One drawing featured a man deliriously happy as he is being strapped into the electric chair and saying, “Gee, it’s just like in the movies.”

Another showed an eye doctor with a knife about to attack a patient who is reading an exam chart that says, “I am an insane eye doctor and I am going to kill you now…”

On Halloween, Wilson posted an old image from Playboy on his Facebook page.

Wilson told David Letterman in 1982 that he was always attracted to circus sideshows and freaks.

“They’re fun,” he said. “They’re nice people.”

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To: BenLurkin

“How much for just the ring?”


21 posted on 11/24/2019 3:20:22 PM PST by mywholebodyisaweapon (Thank God for President Trump.)
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To: BenLurkin

What a guy!


22 posted on 11/24/2019 3:21:55 PM PST by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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To: j.argese

“Beastly sorry about all these interruptions, old boy.”


23 posted on 11/24/2019 3:28:07 PM PST by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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To: BenLurkin

My favorite was a guy getting to an elevator.
That had teeth.


24 posted on 11/24/2019 3:39:30 PM PST by Da Coyote (is)
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To: Drew68

Mine, too! Him and Gary Larson.


25 posted on 11/24/2019 3:41:16 PM PST by beelzepug (OCD and proud of it!)
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To: BenLurkin
In my long ago collegiate career, this was posted on the Astronomy Dept. bulletin board. The professors got a laugh out of it too. Yes, that was years ago.


26 posted on 11/24/2019 3:46:06 PM PST by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: BenLurkin
(While pointing a wicked looking Ray Gun out of the window of the Patent Office) You call this a Death Ray? Why, it's not even slowing them down!
27 posted on 11/24/2019 4:10:51 PM PST by Nateman (If the left is not screaming, you are doing it wrong ...and Epstein did not kill himself.)
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To: Drew68

I started with “Mad Magazine” when I was in elementary school in the ‘50’s and graduated to “National Lampoon” in the ‘70’s. I think my warped sense of humor developed early on. Who can ever forget “JFK’s First 6,000 Days” and “Dog Fishing in America”?


28 posted on 11/24/2019 4:53:31 PM PST by VietVet876
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To: RightGeek

LOL! You have the best!


29 posted on 11/24/2019 4:58:55 PM PST by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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To: BenLurkin

I remember one of his costumes with a little kid or toddler looking in the toilet and seeing the toilet monster.

Iconic.


30 posted on 11/24/2019 5:04:37 PM PST by sauropod (I am His and He is mine)
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To: bigbob

I’m not really sure if there were cartoons, I just bought Playboy for the articles. That’s what I told mom anyway.


31 posted on 11/24/2019 5:21:10 PM PST by wjcsux (Jeffrey Epstein did not kill himself.)
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To: HartleyMBaldwin

There was a cartoon of his I still remember from the 60’s. Two old people in a car stopped at an old wooden stop sign, cobwebs all over them and the lady is saying,”It means only for a little while Harry.”

Off the wall stuff but I waited for his cartoons like I did with Calvin and Hobbes, Bloom County and now Garrison and Branco...must mean something about me?


32 posted on 11/24/2019 5:23:09 PM PST by Karliner (Jeremiah 29:11, Romans 8:28 Isa 17 "This is the end of the beginning" W Churchill)
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To: Nateman

That was Charles Addams


33 posted on 11/24/2019 5:23:36 PM PST by AppyPappy (How many fingers am I holding up, Winston?)
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To: Karliner

I’ve always liked off-the-wall cartooning, not necessarily political stuff, though. Charles Addams, Charles Rodrigues, B. Kliban, John Callahan, Danny Shanahan, George Booth, the list goes on and on. There’s one Kliban cartoon I’ve been mulling over for quite a few years now and still haven’t gotten.


34 posted on 11/24/2019 5:35:30 PM PST by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: stars & stripes forever

Amazing, and way better as an excuse than the lame articles.


35 posted on 11/24/2019 5:45:23 PM PST by Bethaneidh
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To: HartleyMBaldwin

I like off the wall, seen Booth, not familiar with the others but I’m sure I’ve seen them. Over all I like to laugh and a cartoonist that can draw a picture, say a line( or not) surely is amazing.


36 posted on 11/24/2019 7:25:57 PM PST by Karliner (Jeremiah 29:11, Romans 8:28 Isa 17 "This is the end of the beginning" W Churchill)
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To: Karliner

Is Nothing sacred?

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We don’t know why Master is silent some days.


37 posted on 11/24/2019 9:20:17 PM PST by Tymesup
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To: Karliner

You should Google the others. I know you’ve seen the work of Charles Addams.


38 posted on 11/25/2019 3:37:15 AM PST by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: GCFADG

Hugh Hefner had wanted to be a cartoonist.


39 posted on 11/25/2019 3:38:39 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Recall that unqualified Hillary Clinton sat on the board of Wal-Mart when Bill Clinton was governor)
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To: BenLurkin

Loved his sense of humor...I bet compendiums of his work appear and the price goes up for a bit.


40 posted on 11/25/2019 3:42:04 AM PST by trebb (Don't howl about illegal leeches, or Trump in general, while not donating to FR - it's hypocritical.)
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