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3 unusual facts about Gahan Wilson


Everybody's Favorite Duck

This short novel by cartoonist Gahan Wilson pits the detectives Enoch Bone and John Weston against the Professor, a British Napoleon of Crime; the Mandarin, a Chinese mastermind, and Spectrobert, a French rogue.

Think Small

Charles Addams, Bill Hoest, Virgil Partch, Gahan Wilson and other top cartoonists of that decade drew cartoons showing Volkswagens, and these were published along with amusing automotive essays by such humorists as H. Allen Smith, Roger Price and Jean Shepherd.

William Ashbless

This was followed in 2001 by On Pirates (ISBN 1-931081-22-0) — supposedly written by Ashbless, with an introduction by Powers, an afterword by Blaylock, and illustrations by Gahan Wilson — and in 2002 by The William Ashbless Memorial Cookbook.


Dinosaur Tales

The collection contains over 60 pages of illustrations by Gahan Wilson, William Stout, Steranko, Moebius, Overton Loyd, Kenneth Smith and David Wiesner.

Spooky Stories for a Dark and Stormy Night

Spooky Stories for a Dark and Stormy Night is a scary story book compiled by Alice Low and illustrated by Gahan Wilson.

The Someday Funnies

Pieces were created especially for the book by writers, artists, and composers including the writer William Burroughs, the filmmaker Federico Fellini, the writer Tom Wolfe, the musician Frank Zappa, the cartoonist Harvey Kurtzman, the cartoonist Gahan Wilson, the artist Red Grooms, and 160 others.


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