Gahan Wilson

Gahan Wilson is primarily a cartoonist. The subject matter is, more often than not, incredibly morbid humor. Nuclear mutants, serial killers, cannibals. You get the idea. His content is just full up with such a diseased comedy, you can't help but laugh.

But, more to the point, I absolutely love the way he draws his people. They all look like some sort of weird troglodytes that came from under the ground, expressing a pretty good idea of what people really look like. Other characters are often ghoulish, freakish, or fiendish, with crooked smiles and jagged teeth, or wobbling eyes. His shading style really does it for me, though. He usually shades with lines in one direction on any given piece, never the other way. This, to me, presents his art with a unique expression of, I guess I'd say 'reliability'. It helps direct your eye along the page, instead of having the shading lines crash into one another, they all sweep along the cartoon in one direction to keep it steady.

http://www.gahanwilson.com/collection11.htm

So there's the 'official' website, with two or three cartoons of his. I wish there were more. They really are good for a few laughs.

-Salem