The Far Sideis often treated like it had no predecessors, but as creator Gary Larson acknowledged, it actually had several significant influences, including the work of the artist Gahan Wilson. In ...

His work — seen in National Lampoon, Playboy, The New Yorker and other magazines — was full of visual surprises and black humor. By Neil Genzlinger Gahan Wilson, whose outlandish, often ghoulish ...