Gahan Wilson

Gahan Allen Wilson

In 2009, Fantagraphics Books released Gahan Wilson: 50 Years of Playboy Cartoons, a slipcased, three-volume collection of Wilson's cartoons and short stories for that magazine. A collection of his work, Fifty Years of Gahan Wilson, was published in 2010.

Awards Wilson was honored with three different lifetime achievement awards. He received the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement in 1991. In 2005, he was recognized with a lifetime achievement award from the World Fantasy Awards. He also received the National Cartoonists Society's Milton Caniff Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005.

Wilson received additional awards for his work. In 1981 he won the World Fantasy Convention Award; the trophy was the Lovecraft bust he designed in 1975.

Wilson is the subject of a feature-length documentary film, Gahan Wilson: Born Dead, Still Weird, directed by Steven-Charles Jaffe.

He was an influence on later alternative cartoonists, including Gary Larson, John Callahan and Bill Plympton.

Personal life Wilson was married to author Nancy Winters (née Nancy Dee Midyette) from 1966 until her death in March 2019.

In 2019, Wilson's stepson Paul Winters announced that Wilson was suffering from advanced dementia.