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He was born in Evanston, Illinois in 1930. His cartoon and prose-fiction work has appeared regularly in Playboy, Collier's Weekly, The New Yorker and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. For the last he also wrote some movie and book reviews. He has been a book-review columnist for The Twilight Zone Magazine and Realms of Fantasy magazine. Incorporated City in 1872. ... Classic Playboy logo. ... Colliers Weekly was a American magazine that was published between 1888 and 1957. ... The New Yorkers first cover, which is reprinted each year on the magazines anniversary. ... F&SF April 1971, special Poul Anderson issue. ... For other uses see film (disambiguation) Film refers to the celluliod media on which movies are printed Film — also called movies, the cinema, the silver screen, moving pictures, photoplays, picture shows, flicks, or motion pictures, — is a field that encompasses motion pictures as an art form or as part of... Look up book in Wiktionary, the free dictionary A book is a collection of leaves of paper, parchment or other material, bound together along one edge within covers. ... Twilight Zone literature is an umbrella term for the many books and comic books which concern or adapt The Twilight Zone television series. ...

His comic strip Nuts, which appeared in National Lampoon, was a reaction against the saccharine view of childhood in strips like Peanuts. His hero The Kid sees the world as a dark, dangerous and unfair place, but just occasionally a fun one too. This article is about the comic strip, the sequential art form as published in newspapers and on the Internet. ... The National Lampoon is a humor magazine that began in 1970 as an offshoot of the Harvard Lampoon. ... A male Caucasian toddler child A child (plural: children) is a young human. ... Vintage Peanuts strips continue to be sold in book form. ...

Wilson also wrote and illustrated a short story for Harlan Ellison's anthology Again, Dangerous Visions (1972). The "title" is a black blob, and the story is about an ominous black blob that appears on the page, growing at an alarming rate, until... This article is in need of attention. ... Harlan Ellison, c. ... Anthology may also mean a Alien Ant Farm album ANThology, see Anthology (AAF Album) An anthology is a collection of literary works, originally of poems, but in recent years its usage has broadened to be applied to collections of short stories and comic strips. ... Dangerous Visions was a path-breaking science fiction short story anthology edited by Harlan Ellison and published in 1967. ... 1972 was a leap year that started on a Saturday. ...

Additionally, Gahan Wilson created a computer game titled 'The Ultimate Haunted House', in conjunction with Byron Preiss. The goal is to collect 13 keys in various ways from the 13 rooms of this house, by interacting with characters (such as a two-headed monster, a mad scientist, and a vampiress), objects and the house itself. You only get thirteen hours to do so.

Bibliography

• Gahan Wilson's Graveside Manner (1965)
• The Man in the Cannibal Pot (1967)
• I Paint What I See (1971)
• Playboy's Gahan Wilson (i) (1973)
• Gahan Wilson's Cracked Cosmos (1975)
• The Weird World of Gahan Wilson (1975)
• And Then We'll Get Him! (1978)
• Nuts (strip collection) (1979)
• Playboy's Gahan Wilson (ii) (1980)
• Is Nothing Sacred? (1982)
• Gahan Wilson's America (1985)
• Eddy Deco's Last Caper (1987)
• Everybody's Favorite Duck (1988)
• A Night in the Lonesome October (illustrated by Gahan Wilson; written by Roger Zelazny) (1993)
• Still Weird (1994)
• Even Weirder (1996)
• The Best of Gahan Wilson (2004)

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Children's Fantasy:

Harry Series

• Harry, the Fat Bear Spy (1973)
• Harry and the Sea Serpent (1976)
• Harry and the Snow Melting Ray (1978)

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Others

• The Bang Bang Family (1974)
• Spooky Stories for a Dark and Stormy Night (1994)

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Books edited by Gahan Wilson

• Gahan Wilson's Favorite Tales of Horror (1976)
• The First World Fantasy Awards (1977)

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Reference

Some bibliographical information derived from The Encyclopedia of Fantasy ed. John Clute and John Grant. Cover Art. ... John Clute is a Canadian born author and critic who lives in Britain. ...

External links

• lambiek.net entry on Wilson