Gahan Wilson has been a celebrated guest at Comic-Con and WonderCon and has received more lifetime achievement awards than any living cartoonist. His work has been published in National Lampoon, Playboy, The New Yorker, The New York Times and Esquire. His fans include Robin Williams, Jim Carrey, Mel Brooks, Vice-President Al Gore, Bill Moyers, Jack Nicholson, and film critics, Peter Rainer and Leonard Maltin.

Mr. Wilson is also the author of numerous adult and children’s books. Fantagraphics Books are publishing a three volume coffee table book in early 2010, “Fifty Years of Gahan Wilson’ Playboy Cartoons”.

Gahan Wilson is the star of Steven-Charles Jaffe's feature documentary, Gahan WIlson: Born Dead, Still Weird – Winner Best Documentary Comic-Con International Film Festival. In addition to Wilson’s art and unusual life, the documentary includes special guest stars of Gahan Wilson: Stephen Colbert, Neil Gaiman, Guillermo Del Toro, Stan Lee, Hugh M.Hefner, Randy Newman, Bill Maher, Lewis Black, Mike Mignola (Hell Boy), and David Remnick, (Editor-in-Chief, The New Yorker) and many cartoonists. The New Yorker and Playboy continue to support the documentary in print and on their websites. They have a combined subscription base of more than 6 million people.