He won a special World Fantasy Award in 1981, the Best Artist Award in 1996, and was Guest of Honor at the 1998 convention. Lovecraft, in 1975 and has served as toastmaster and awards judge for several of the World Fantasy Conventions. Wilson designed the World Fantasy Award, a bust of H.P. He has written reviews for F&SF and The Twilight Zone, and is currently reviewing books for Realms of Fantasy. Wilson has done a detective novel, Eddy Deco's Last Caper: An Illustrated Mystery (1987) and a number of children's books, animation for 20 th Century Fox in Gahan Wilson's Diner (1973), and the CD-ROM game ''Gahan Wilson's The Ultimate Haunted House'' for Microsoft/Byron Preiss Multimedia. His long series of graphic art collections began in 1965 with Gahan Wilson's Graveside Manner recent volumes are Gahan Wilson's America (1985), Still Weird (1994), and Even Weirder (1996). In 1964, he began a continuing association with F&SF, as cartoonist and occasional reviewer. Gahan Wilson's work first appeared in Amazing Stories in 1954, but he became nationally known through art in slick magazines including Colliers, Playboy, and later The New Yorker. Photo by Beth Gwinn (cartoon by Gahan Wilson) (excerpted from Locus Magazine, March 1999)
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