About Gahan Allen Wilson

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    "Gahan Wilson, Vividly Macabre Cartoonist, Dies at 89: His work — seen in National Lampoon, Playboy, The New Yorker and other magazines — was full of visual surprises and black humor. Online Obituary of The New York Times, by Neil Genzlinger, Nov. 22, 2019

    Gahan Wilson, whose outlandish, often ghoulish cartoons added a bizarrely humorous touch to Playboy, The New Yorker, National Lampoon and other publications in the era when magazines propelled the cultural conversation, died on Thursday in Scottsdale, Ariz. He was 89.

    His stepson Paul Winters said the cause was complications of dementia, which Mr. Wilson had been dealing with for years.

    Mr. Wilson was known for visual surprises and black humor:

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