A Lovecraft Retrospective by Harlan Ellison

These did not always involve genre subjects, but one cartoon from F&SF republished in '.

He went on to publish numerous cartoons in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction during the 1960s and 1970s. Wilson's artwork for the SF Magazines began with several 1954 cartoons published in Fantastic, the first being in the January/February 1954 issue Amazing Stories, from the March 1954 issue and Weird Tales, from the September 1954 issue. His contributions to sf were also copious, if perhaps not as significant. He drew in distinctively sprawling lines which encouraged distortions and grotesques, a good visual match for his habitual black-comedy subjects: funerals, Death, Devils, oozing Monsters, Vampires and seedy versions of Heaven and Hell regularly appeared, as did sinister Children. The bizarre and often macabre sense of Humour he displayed in his innumerable cartoons, though influenced by such precursors as Charles Addams, has had a broad impact on the style and substance of American culture as a whole. (1930-2019) American artist and author, best known for his work outside the genre as a cartoonist, his career beginning in the mid-1940s associated mainly for many decades with such Slick magazines as Playboy (from 1957) and The New Yorker (from 1980).

A Lovecraft Retrospective by Harlan Ellison