Macabre

“I have this touching fantasy that maybe one day some senator will look at one of my cartoons and actually say to another senator, ‘You know, he has a point here.’” 

—Gahan Wilson (1930-2019), cartoonist, 2010. “Gahan Wilson, Vividly Macabre Cartoonist, Dies at 89,” Nov. 22, 2019.

• Editorial Comment: Everyone uses “macabre” in describing Gahan Wilson. Wonder what descriptor will spring to mind for me? “Ruggedly handsome”?

PeezPix

Pacific Winterscape

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