Gahan Wilson

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

NPR

Society & Culture

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2010

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Gahan Wilson is perhaps America's most legendary cartoonist. For more than 50 years, his distinctively twisted single-panel cartoons have appeared in magazines like Playboy and The New Yorker.

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0:43.0	I'm Jesse Thorne.
0:44.0	My guest on this show is one of America's most legendary single panel cartoonists and
0:50.0	an accomplishment in a number of other fields as well.
0:54.0	Gain Wilson is well known for his cartoons, especially in Playboy and The New Yorker,
0:59.0	which for more than 50 years have brought a distinctive, loopily, dark style to the
1:08.0	page.
1:09.0	Often featuring ghouls and goblins and creatures of horror as well as the occasional alien
1:17.0	and monster under the bed.
1:20.0	Gain, it's such a pleasure to have you on the show.
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