There are many interesting Wilons to collect if you are into cartooning. Gahan Wilson, the Playboy and National Lampoon artist, S. Clay Wilson, the underground cartoonist and Rowland Wilson, who rose to fame with his beautifully illustrated cartoons for Wsquire and Playboy and went on to become an important animation designer at Disney. The last Wilson started out at the Texas Ranger, the college magazine of the University of Texas in Austin. I came across some of his work from that magazine when it was reprinted in 1000 Jokes in 1952 - which was edited by another Texas Ranger Alumni, Bill Yates. His earliest work is funny but derivitive - although it sometimes shows the character humor that would later become his staple. In Esquire and Playboy, he was never one to go for the big gag. His forte was a sly remark accompanied with a beautiful llustration. Click on the link to see some of those.
Showing posts with label Gahan Wilson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gahan Wilson. Show all posts
Monday, February 12, 2018
Hello, Mr. Wilson!
Monday Cartoon Day.
There are many interesting Wilons to collect if you are into cartooning. Gahan Wilson, the Playboy and National Lampoon artist, S. Clay Wilson, the underground cartoonist and Rowland Wilson, who rose to fame with his beautifully illustrated cartoons for Wsquire and Playboy and went on to become an important animation designer at Disney. The last Wilson started out at the Texas Ranger, the college magazine of the University of Texas in Austin. I came across some of his work from that magazine when it was reprinted in 1000 Jokes in 1952 - which was edited by another Texas Ranger Alumni, Bill Yates. His earliest work is funny but derivitive - although it sometimes shows the character humor that would later become his staple. In Esquire and Playboy, he was never one to go for the big gag. His forte was a sly remark accompanied with a beautiful llustration. Click on the link to see some of those.
There are many interesting Wilons to collect if you are into cartooning. Gahan Wilson, the Playboy and National Lampoon artist, S. Clay Wilson, the underground cartoonist and Rowland Wilson, who rose to fame with his beautifully illustrated cartoons for Wsquire and Playboy and went on to become an important animation designer at Disney. The last Wilson started out at the Texas Ranger, the college magazine of the University of Texas in Austin. I came across some of his work from that magazine when it was reprinted in 1000 Jokes in 1952 - which was edited by another Texas Ranger Alumni, Bill Yates. His earliest work is funny but derivitive - although it sometimes shows the character humor that would later become his staple. In Esquire and Playboy, he was never one to go for the big gag. His forte was a sly remark accompanied with a beautiful llustration. Click on the link to see some of those.
Tuesday, April 18, 2017
Gahan Out Of Here
Monday Cartoon Day.
Long before Gahan Wilson became known as Playboy's resident weirdo, he was selling his cartoons to magazines left and right. I have scanned a couple, with more to come hopefully.
Long before Gahan Wilson became known as Playboy's resident weirdo, he was selling his cartoons to magazines left and right. I have scanned a couple, with more to come hopefully.
Monday, May 14, 2012
Gahan But Not Forgotten
Monday Cartoon Day.
If you like cartoons, you will now the name of Gahan Wilson. His work for Playboy (and other magazines) is weird, surreal and often very funny. He also had a Sunday cartoon feature between 1974 and 1976, which was tamer, but just as well drawn. A whole lot of earlier samples was shown on the Golden Age Comic Book Stories blog here: http://goldenagecomicbookstories.blogspot.com/2010/02/beginning-week-of-humor-gahan-wilson.html If I am counting right, you'll get 63 episodes from these two blogs together.
My run seamlessly follows those and in fact, I think the older ones are better. But still, together they make for a nice lot and I hope you'll enjoy them.
Monday Cartoon Day.
If you like cartoons, you will now the name of Gahan Wilson. His work for Playboy (and other magazines) is weird, surreal and often very funny. He also had a Sunday cartoon feature between 1974 and 1976, which was tamer, but just as well drawn. A whole lot of earlier samples was shown on the Golden Age Comic Book Stories blog here: http://goldenagecomicbookstories.blogspot.com/2010/02/beginning-week-of-humor-gahan-wilson.html If I am counting right, you'll get 63 episodes from these two blogs together.
My run seamlessly follows those and in fact, I think the older ones are better. But still, together they make for a nice lot and I hope you'll enjoy them.
Monday, April 19, 2010
Seven Gags A Week
Monday Cartoon Day
When I showed some of John Stees' Sunday gag collections, I mentioned the fact that he wasn't the first or the last to produce such a Sunday feature. I have already shown some of Gaham Wilson's pages last year. There were the long running pages by George Lichty and Ed Reed's Off The Record. There even was a Laugh In daily and Sunday, which I am showing here with another favorite of mine: Arnold Roth's Poor Arnold's Almanac.
I actually have quite few of these, but I haven't scanned them in for two reasons; first of all, my samples are from the Winnipeg newspaper that did their own color and bad as it is on other strips, it leaves nothing of Arnold Roth's beauty and secondly, there was a comlete reprinting of all strips (in black and white, but from the best of line art possible) by Fantagraphics in 1998. I had a look at their website, but they are offering it now for slightly over $8 and I urge you to go there and buy it, before they run out and you end up payning $30 or more for it in a couple of years. When I came across these two vibrantly colored samples last week, I just had to show them to you. I have added a color sample of Stees Sees and the aforementioned Laugh In.
April 24 1959:
June 14 1959:
May 8 1960:
A random selection from late 1968:
Aug 30 1970:
Sept 6 1970:
When I showed some of John Stees' Sunday gag collections, I mentioned the fact that he wasn't the first or the last to produce such a Sunday feature. I have already shown some of Gaham Wilson's pages last year. There were the long running pages by George Lichty and Ed Reed's Off The Record. There even was a Laugh In daily and Sunday, which I am showing here with another favorite of mine: Arnold Roth's Poor Arnold's Almanac.
I actually have quite few of these, but I haven't scanned them in for two reasons; first of all, my samples are from the Winnipeg newspaper that did their own color and bad as it is on other strips, it leaves nothing of Arnold Roth's beauty and secondly, there was a comlete reprinting of all strips (in black and white, but from the best of line art possible) by Fantagraphics in 1998. I had a look at their website, but they are offering it now for slightly over $8 and I urge you to go there and buy it, before they run out and you end up payning $30 or more for it in a couple of years. When I came across these two vibrantly colored samples last week, I just had to show them to you. I have added a color sample of Stees Sees and the aforementioned Laugh In.
April 24 1959:
June 14 1959:
May 8 1960:
A random selection from late 1968:
Aug 30 1970:
Sept 6 1970:
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