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Tonight! See Gahan Wilson, David Remnick, Hugh Hefner, Stephen Colbert, Francoise Mouly, Stan Lee, Roz Chast, and More All in One Place...

Filed under: On the Spot Tagged: art, Bill Maher, Bob Mankoff, Carolita Johnson, cartoons, covers, David Remnick, documentaries, Drew Dernavich, events, Francoise Mouly, Gahan Wilson, GOAT, Guillermo del Toro, Hugh Hefner, John Donohue, Lewis Black, movies, Neil Gaiman, newyorker.com, Nicholas Meyer, Randy Newman, Roz Chast, Stan Lee, Stephen Colbert

...at the IFC Center in New York at 323 Sixth Avenue at 8 p.m., in the new documentary Gahan Wilson: Born Dead, Still Weird, directed by Steven-Charles Jaffe.

If you love Wilson's cartoons, covers, and comics for The New Yorker, Playboy, and countless other publications over the decades; or if you've always wondered how the cartoons get chosen for The New Yorker; or want to see Stephen Colbert at his most startlingly and movingly sincere, or dig custom skateboard decks, cats, ghosts, monsters, headless fish, or the Sag Harbor jitney; or love hearing celebrity comics gods talking about art, you must attend this screening. (Here's still more temptation, from John Donohue on the Goings On blog.)

And here's a serious treat—afterward there's a Q & A with both Wilson and Jaffe. It's $15 and, I assure you, very much worth it. Buy tickets here or call the box office at 212-924-7771. See you there!

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