Tuesday, October 8, 2013

Gahan Wilson's Clogged Chimney

Gahan Wilson's original 1964 cartoon art published in Playboy reveals pretty much the worst thing one could ever find in one's chimney.

Gahan Wilson, "Well, we found what's been clogging your chimney
since last December, Miss Emmy."
Playboy, October 1964, page 106
Gahan Wilson. I Paint What I See. New York: Fireside, 1971, page 37
Playboy:  Classic Cartoons, 2000, page 137
Gahan Wilson: 50 Years of Playboy Cartoons, Fantagraphics, 2010
Heritage Auction Listing, October 22, 2011



Gahan Wilson, "Well, we found what's been clogging your chimney since last December, Miss Emmy."
Playboy, October 1964, page 106
Gahan Wilson. I Paint What I See. New York: Fireside, 1971, page 37
Playboy:  Classic Cartoons, 2000, page 137
Gahan Wilson: 50 Years of Playboy Cartoons, Fantagraphics, 2010
Heritage Auction Listing, October 22, 2011
Gahan Wilson, "Well, we found what's been clogging your chimney since last December, Miss Emmy."
Playboy, October 1964, page 106
Gahan Wilson. I Paint What I See. New York: Fireside, 1971, page 37
Playboy:  Classic Cartoons, 2000, page 137
Gahan Wilson: 50 Years of Playboy Cartoons, Fantagraphics, 2010
Heritage Auction Listing, October 22, 2011

Gahan Wilson signature
Heritage Auction Listing, October 22, 2011

Back of Board
 Heritage Auction Listing, October 22, 2011

Gahan Wilson, "Well, we found what's been clogging your chimney since last December, Miss Emmy."
Matted.
Playboy, October 1964, page 106
Gahan Wilson. I Paint What I See. New York: Fireside, 1971, page 37
Playboy:  Classic Cartoons, 2000, page 137
Gahan Wilson: 50 Years of Playboy Cartoons, Fantagraphics, 2010
Heritage Auction Listing, October 22, 2011

Gahan Wilson, "Well, we found what's been clogging your chimney since last December, Miss Emmy."
Playboy, October 1964, page 106

Note:  Check out more of my blog posts on Gahan Wilson here.

I actually don't have a copy of Gahan Wilson:  50 Years of Playboy Cartoons, but it supposedly contains all his work for the magazine. Please let me know if I've made an error here by including that title in the publication history.

Don't miss Gahan Wilson's New Yorker work in the Cartoon Bank here.

The website for "Gahan Wilson:  Born Dead, Still Weird," a documentary by Steven-Charles Jaffe about the cartoonist, is here. The film will be shown at the IFC Center Theater in New York from Ocotber 11 to 17.
"Gahan Wilson:  Born Dead, Still Weird"
Official Trailer for "Gahan Wilson:
Born Dead, Still Weird"

Gahan Wilson's 2009 radio interview on the Leonard Lopate Show is here.

News about Gahan Wilson on Ink Spill is here.

A couple of Gahan Wilson illustrations are on The Pictorial Arts blog here.

The partial government shutdown remains in effect. My earlier comments regarding sequestration and the debt ceiling still apply to this latest self-inflicted crisis. Read what I have to say here.

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