(CNN)Cartoonist Gahan Wilson, whose magazine illustrations earned him the nicknames "the Michelangelo of the Macabre" and "the Wizard of Weird," has died at 89, according to his stepson Paul Winters.
"The world has lost a legend," Winters said. "One of the very best cartoonists to ever pick up a pen and paper has passed on."
Wilson gained fame with his offbeat drawings in magazines like Playboy, The New Yorker and National Lampoon.
One drawing featured a man deliriously happy as he is being strapped into the electric chair and saying, "Gee, it's just like in the movies."
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