Gahan Wilson 50 Years of Playboy Cartoons (3 Volumes)
by Wilson, Hugh Hefner(Ed.), Gahan
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 1606992988
- ISBN 13
- 9781606992982
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Seattle: Fantagraphics, 2011. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Three hardcover volumes in a pictorial slipcase, 1056 pages. Few cartoonists ever had as lavish a tribute as a three-volume-slipcased collection, but few are as deserving as Wilson. Collecting 50 years worth of his monthly single page gag cartoons from Playboy, it's a definitive overview of a remarkable talent and viewpoint. Considering the timeframe, Wilson's fabled black humor and art style remain remarkably consistent—as time passes, the drawing renders into slightly blobbier shapes that retain all of their wit just the same—but the source and degree of the humor is a constant. Although best known for his slightly lugubrious subjects—monsters, witches, corpses, vampires and skeletons are frequent visitors to these pages—Wilson also targets consumerism, materialism, and other basic human foibles. As publisher Gary Groth writes in a biography in the third volume, He has constructed a world that is eerily family, unsettlingly recognizable and lethally consistent. Beautifully designed and printed, the books contain cut-out pages, and the slipcase itself becomes a window for a trapped photo of Wilson. Text extras include Wilson's prose short stories and an appreciation by Neil Gaiman. Record # 361285
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 361285
- Title
- Gahan Wilson 50 Years of Playboy Cartoons (3 Volumes)
- Author
- Wilson, Hugh Hefner(Ed.), Gahan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 1606992988
- ISBN 13
- 9781606992982
- Publisher
- Fantagraphics
- Place of Publication
- Seattle
- Date Published
- 2011
- Keywords
- art, Cartoons, , .
- Bookseller catalogs
- art;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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