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Gahan Wilson dies

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Gahan Wilson dies

Gahan Wilson dies. Image: still from the 2013 documentary "Gahan Wilson: Born Dead, Still Weird" The cartoonist died on 21 November at the age of 89 in Scottsdale, Arizona from complications arising from his advanced state of dementia. "The world has lost a legend. One of the greatest cartoonists who ever picked up

Gahan Wilson, between humour and dementia

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Gahan Wilson, between humour and dementia

At the beginning of January this year Gahan Wilson announced that he was retiring, less than a month before his 89th birthday. It is said that cartoonists never retire, but in Gahan's case it was inevitable. He suffers from advanced dementia. In March his wife, the writer Nancy Winters, née Nancy Dee Midyette,