Do they have silk pajamas in heaven?
No matter. Hugh Hefner pretty much built his own heaven right here on earth. He died Wednesday at 91.
Say what you will about Playboy — and people said plenty, fans and detractors alike — Hef’ gave a home to one helluva lot of top-shelf cartoonists. Gahan Wilson, Bobby London, Shel Silverstein, Jack Cole, B. Kliban, Jules Feiffer, Will Elder, Harvey Kurtzman — the list goes on, and on, and on. He even had the distinct honor of being mocked alongside Peter Max in Bijou Funnies by Robert Crumb, Jay Lynch and Skip Williamson.
Playboy paid well when everyone else paid for shit. For cartoonists it was The New Yorker, but with a centerfold. R.I.P., Hef’.
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Yeah. Playboy was a high class outfit.
And Gahan Wilson bridged that gap
Gahan Wilson crushed it, always and forever. What a weirdo. I have one of his books, “I Paint What I See.” I need more.
He was, according to the NPR piece about his passing, a cartoonist at Esquire before he started Playboy magazine. He got turned down for a small raise and decided to start his own magazine. I think messing with a cartoonist will take away your mojo.
http://www.npr.org/2017/09/27/531884820/-playboy-founder-hugh-hefner-who-championed-free-speech-and-smut-dies-at-91
Never. Mess. With. The. Cartoonist. Period.
Never. Unless it is to plan a ride in Duke City to celebrate a Mad Dog. And perhaps a LUG.
he also brought a lot of Jazz into the public eye.
Yup. I don’t remember when I saw my first Playboy, but I do remember a reference to it in Robert A. Heinlein’s “Glory Road.”
Playboy was big on music. Frank Zappa scored an interview in tandem with being named the 43rd inductee into the Playboy Music Hall of Fame.
And Paul McCartney was forever being named to the magazine’s All-Star Band.
But the Playboy mudflaps will live forever. They say women buy shoes to impress other women – I’d say the same about men and the mudflaps.
I bought the 2nd issue, April ’53, I think. A very young dirty old man! I continued to read it for a very long time.