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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“How much for just the ring?”
What a guy!
“Beastly sorry about all these interruptions, old boy.”
My favorite was a guy getting to an elevator.
That had teeth.
Mine, too! Him and Gary Larson.
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”?
LOL! You have the best!
I remember one of his costumes with a little kid or toddler looking in the toilet and seeing the toilet monster.
Iconic.
I’m not really sure if there were cartoons, I just bought Playboy for the articles. That’s what I told mom anyway.
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?
That was Charles Addams
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.
Amazing, and way better as an excuse than the lame articles.
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.
Is Nothing sacred?
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We don’t know why Master is silent some days.
You should Google the others. I know you’ve seen the work of Charles Addams.
Hugh Hefner had wanted to be a cartoonist.
Loved his sense of humor...I bet compendiums of his work appear and the price goes up for a bit.
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