Fantagraphics have some great news for us (although perhaps not for our wallets – but hell, who really needs food anyway?):
Gahan Wilson: 50 Years of Playboy Cartoons features not only every cartoon Wilson drew for Playboy, but all his prose fiction that has appeared in that magazine as well, from his first story in the June, 1962 issue, “Horror Trio,” to such classics as “Dracula Country” (September 1978). It also includes the text-and-art features he drew for Playboy, such as his look at Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum, his take on our country’s “pathology of violence,” and his appreciation of “transplant surgery.”
Fantagraphics are also previewing the book by putting various Wilson strips onto the FLOG blog. Likewise the Playboy website has 17 great cartoons as well (link here – obviously NSFW – but at least you can justify it by saying you really are just looking for the cartoons!)
It is expensive – £60 quid plus on the FPI store, but there’s 3 hardback volumes and 1056 pages for heaven’s sake. Surely you’ll all agree that I really, really need this? Now all I need is someone to buy it for me. Anyone fancy convincing Mrs Bruton?
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