Newton G.Brand, Jr.'s, Copy of Gahan Wilson's America

Texas banker Newton G. Brand, Jr., (1929-2011) corresponded with a number of New Yorker cartoonists, requesting that they personalize copies of their books by mail. Gahan Wilson (1930-2019) was one of those who complied. In Brand's copy of Gahan Wilson's America (1985), Wilson acknowledges with the word again that this is not the only instance that the artist and the collector have come together in this way. The book was inscribed for Brand on November 19, 1991, some six years after publication. It includes an original drawing of hanging dice and a skull, which recalls an idea that appears on the book's dust jacket. 

Gahan Wilson's signature and date

Gahan Wilson
eBay listing ended July 7, 2026

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There were seventeen bids in very small increments when the final bidder won the book. Who is that guy?

Note:  I remain eager to use this blog to share books inscribed by Gahan Wilson and other New Yorker cartoonists to Newton Brand, Jr., and other collectors.

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Tennis in Gahan Wilson's America

Size does matter. This copy of Gahan Wilson's America contains an original drawing on the subject of tennis.

Gahan Wilson, Inscribed with a drawing "To Rick/Nedvin/with/my/best/wishes/Gahan/Wilson" in Gahan Wilson's America. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1985

Gahan Wilson's America. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1985

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Gahan Wilson, Inscribed with a drawing "To Rick/Nedvin/with/my/best/wishes/Gahan/Wilson" in Gahan Wilson's America. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1985

Note:  You can read more of my posts about Gahan Wilson here.

His New Yorker work is on view in the Cartoon Bank here.

The documentary "Gahan Wilson:  Born Dead, Still Weird" by Steven-Charles Jaffe has its website here. The movie completes its run in New York City at the IFC Center Theater today.

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

For the latest news about Gahan Wilson, check out Ink Spill here.

There are some Gahan Wilson illustrations on The Pictorial Arts blog here well worth checking out.

Earlier posts about tennis are here.

Don't ask me to write about the recent government shutdown or the debt ceiling. I still believe the sequestration cuts are senseless. I said it here.

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