If you are old enough you may remember the work of cartoonist, illustrator and author Gahan Wilson. (b.1930) Famous for taking an everyday situation to a bizarre conclusion his cartoons often depicted wacky or gruesome scenarios.
I still have one of his books published in 1973 with his classic ‘aftermath of war’ image on the cover. A solitary bedraggled soldier emerges from the desolate cityscape amidst rubble and smoke and declares “I think I’ve won”.
Gahan Wilson regularly appeared in ‘Playboy’, ‘New Yorker’ and ‘Punch’ and in the 70′s he had a cartoon strip ‘Nuts’ which ran in the backpages of ‘National Lampoon’.
Take a look at the Gahan Wilson Virtual Museum
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