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All rights reserved. Privacy Terms Cookies. And one his very best drawings finds a demented-looking soldier, bloody bayonet in hand, declaring on a desolate warscape, I think we won Wilsons genius for grotesquery well suits his environmental concerns. And who admits to reading Playboy (even though it still sells over 2 million copies monthly in the U.S.) Maybe a few older guys who were looking for high-end stereo advice back when Wilson published his first wonderfully creepy drawing in 1957. Young people know Hugh Hefner, the legendary editor of this improbably long-lived magazine, as the geezer who squires around a bevy of bottle blondes with fake breasts on reality TVs The Girls Next Door. ![]() Hefners original vision for his full-color glossy magazine included a winning combination of beautiful naked women and sophisticated consumer advice. But equally important was his hope to develop a stable of cartoonists to rival The New Yorker, whose best artists Charles Addams, Peter Arno, Saul Steinberg and the rest were under exclusive contract to that more staid publication. Nowadays, both magazines share many cartoon contributors, including Gahan Wilson.) Most of Playboy s early cartoonists were masters of the female form at its exaggerated best: Jack Cole, Al Stine, and Erich Sokol among them. To class up the act, Hefner found his Arno in Julien Dedman, the Yalie ad exec. Later, of course, after Esquire stopped publishing cartoons, he incorporated the sexy stylings of Eldon Dedini and E. Simms Campbell. All he lacked was his own version of Charles Addamss ghoulish humor. But it wasnt that simple, and the story involves another comic and cartoon genius, the ubiquitous Harvey Kurtzman, who not only invented Mad magazine and wrote and edited some of the all-time greatest comic books, but also served the Playboy empire twice. Hefner, after all, considered himself a failed cartoonist, and he proved to be a connoisseur of the form, rivaled only by his sexual connoisseurship. Hoping to join the former Mad men at Trump, Gahan Wilson schlepped his portfolio of weird cartoons to Chicago, assuming Trump shared offices with its parent publication. But the soon-to-expire magazine was edited in New York, and Wilson was ushered in to meet Hefner himself. Kismet It was a marriage made in heaven a paradise peopled with freaks, monsters, and aliens, to be sure. ![]() Hefner found in Wilsons work his answer to Addamss macabre sensibility; and while Addams and Wilson share a skewed view of everyday reality, their actual styles are worlds apart. Addams worked within the black-and-white pages of The New Yorker, in which his cartoons were given only a portion of the page. His lines were clean and his characters fairly ordinary looking, even if the gags were mind-blowing. Think of the skier in the classic cartoon whos just passed a tree with his tracks curving around both sides at once.) Wilson himself, in a 1993 interview in The Comics Journal, welcomes the comparison with the older cartoonist and illuminates the essential differences. In his view, Addams created beautiful, atmospheric New York stuff, all of which evokes an era of an elegant 40s and 50s. Moreover, Addams never ventured into the realm of politics that so clearly energizes Wilsons apocalyptic imagination. Wilson, in short, is very much a creature of his time, the postwar era of domestic prosperity and nuclear anxiety. Without ever losing sight of the humor in it all, Wilson reveals in these many cartoons a disgust with the American war machine, rage over possible Armageddon, and fear of ecological catastrophe. As early as 1958, he draws two Eskimos looking up at nuclear warheads on a collision course in the sky, with one saying to the other, Looks like the end of civilization as they know it. Not much later, he publishes a captionless gag of a sign floating in a post-explosion outer space, reading, The World is Coming to an End. A full-page wordless and characterless cartoon depicts a school of sharks approaching an atomic mushroom cloud.
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