Gahan Wilson Sunday Comics

Gahan Wilson Sunday Comics

This collects the macabre Playboy cartoonistâ€™s syndicated Sunday comic strip.
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. Full color comics throughout
Country USA
Brand Fantagraphics Books
Manufacturer Fantagraphics Books
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2013-09-07
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781606996126

Country	USA
Brand	Fantagraphics Books
Manufacturer	Fantagraphics Books
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2013-09-07
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781606996126

Gahan Wilson Sunday Comics

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