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In the book section this week, you can find a long, satisfying interview with legendary Playboy and New Yorker cartoonist Gahan Wilson. (Even if you don't recognize the name, you know Gahan Wilson's work. Click the image to the left for a full-size sample cartoon.)

Among many other things, we talked about the internet:

If there ever was a renaissance time, we are in it! I mean, this renaissance is a renaissance that makes the Renaissance looks a little timid.

We talked about Scott McCloud's proclamation that one-panel comics aren't really comics:

Oh, I think that's meaningless. That's like saying a mural makes sense but a portrait is no good. It just doesn't make any sense.

And we talked about why horror writers are nicer than every other type of writer:

These guys write about terror, and the instability of everything, and how thin the ice is, and so on—they're aware we're all doomed and that sort of stuff. And that was it. They have a lot more empathy than most people.

He's a charming, funny, kind man and you should read the interview. And then you should go to the Fantagraphics Store in Georgetown this Saturday and meet Mr. Wilson in the flesh. He's making his first-ever trip to Seattle to debut his gorgeous, three-volume slipcased complete set of Playboy cartoons, and you should help him feel welcome.