Gahan Wilson's America

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America's "master of morbidity," whose cartoons have been hailed as the "second most compelling reason teenage boys look at Playboy" (while also being enjoyed regularly by the less callow readers of The New Yorker), has at long last put together his close - to-unspeakable observations and diabolical art—either entirely new or never before collected in book form — on the subject that has most obsessed his decadent and irreverent imagination over the years: his country Gahan Wilson's America is not only Mr. Wilson's most original, most thematically composed and consistent collection, it is also his first to combine the acidic drippings of his pen (he has yet to make peace with the typewriter, let alone the word processor) with the products of his drawing board— presenting twenty sections of wry words and splendidly varied art that inform and amuse us on virtually every facet of our national paranoia.
Here we have Mr. Wilson's essential exposures of... Tovább

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America's "master of morbidity," whose cartoons have been hailed as the "second most compelling reason teenage boys look at Playboy" (while also being enjoyed regularly by the less callow readers of The New Yorker), has at long last put together his close - to-unspeakable observations and diabolical art—either entirely new or never before collected in book form — on the subject that has most obsessed his decadent and irreverent imagination over the years: his country Gahan Wilson's America is not only Mr. Wilson's most original, most thematically composed and consistent collection, it is also his first to combine the acidic drippings of his pen (he has yet to make peace with the typewriter, let alone the word processor) with the products of his drawing board— presenting twenty sections of wry words and splendidly varied art that inform and amuse us on virtually every facet of our national paranoia.
Here we have Mr. Wilson's essential exposures of American history and legend, from our colonial origins (with Indians and settlers —who really took whom?) to the edge of nuclear oblivion.The "Wild West" is found to exist not so much beyond the continental divide as in the backyards, boardrooms, and other ubiquitous locales of the land. Our eating habits are reexamined without fear of tastelessness, from foods fast to fancy The professions of medicine, law, and religion are bluntly dissected, as are the institutions of dating and marriage, home and family Childhood receives special attention, with unsparing yet fond recollection of its most warping traumas, fantasies, and social prohibitions. And being such a mobile people, we are shown traveling both with and without our favorite adjunct, the car, and are instructed with uncommon sensitivity in the hazards of urban visitation and foreign travel.
From Salem witchcraft to Hollywood glamour, from the rigors of institutional Vissza