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Bookmark or Share- Basil Wolverton - The Comics JournalBasil Wolverton. Ron Goulart | August 2, 2012 Having been born with a zany gene in my DNA, I was quite naturally predisposed in the 1940s to the comic book work of Basil Wolverton. It was my ambition to grow up to become not only a professional writer but also a gainfully employed cartoonist.
- Basil Wolverton - Lambiek ComiclopediaBasil Wolverton was a U.S. comic artist, notorious for his unforgettable depictions of wacky, grotesque and ugly people. His artwork has often been described as "spaghetti and meatballs", while he referred to himself as a "producer of preposterous pictures of peculiar people who prowl this perplexing planet".
- BASIL WOLVERTON: AMERICA'S WEIRDEST ARTIST - PleaseKillMeHe called one of Wolverton’s most famous pieces—a grotesque MAD magazine cover from 1954—“a virtuoso exercise in bad taste.” In other words, Basil Wolverton is right up PKM’s alley—starting with that amazingly strange name, itself seemingly culled from a Charles Addams cartoon.
- The van Gogh of the Gross-Out - The New York TimesBasil Wolverton: A retrospective of the cartoonist-illustrator continues at the Barbara Gladstone Gallery in Chelsea through Aug. 14. Above, "Smacker" (around 1950). Glenn Bray and The...
- Basil Wolverton | ArtnetView Basil Wolverton’s artworks on artnet. Learn about the artist and find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks, the latest news, and sold auction prices.
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