One of the most distinctive and original comic artists of our time, Gahan Wilson has established a secure reputation as a master of the macabre. "I've always had an innocent affection for the ghastly and the macabre," Wilson explained to Robert Dahlin of Publishers Weekly. This affection is obvious in his darkly humorous cartoons featuring monsters, aliens, vampires, and other grotesque characters. "Vile. Morbid. Depraved. Base. Monstrous. Diabolical. Grotesque. Macabre. All these adjectives and others like them have been quite properly applied to the cartoons [of] Gahan Wilson," a New York Times Book Review critic reported. "Wilson is the greatest cartoonist of the macabre in the world," Stanley Wiater proclaimed in an article posted at Wilson's Web site. Ray Olson in Booklist claimed: "Macabre cartoonist Wilson is the peer of Charles Addams, Edward Gorey, and Gary Larson, but he bests them all at simultaneously eliciting shivers and giggles...