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Basil Wolverton (July 9, 1909 – December 31, 1978) was an American cartoonist and illustrator known for his intricately detailed grotesques of bizarre or misshapen people. Wolverton was described as "Producer of Preposterous Pictures of Peculiar People who Prowl this Perplexing Planet. His many publishers included Marvel Comics and Mad magazine. His drawings have elicited a wide range of reactions.

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Basil Wolverton was born in 1909 and died in 1978, and spent most of his life in Vancouver, WA and was posthumously inducted into the comic book industry's Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1991. Wolverton first started his cartooning career by pitching comic strips to newspaper syndicates. In 1929 The Independent Syndicate of New York accepted his comic Marco of Mars but never distributed because it was deemed too similar to Buck Rogers, which debuted that year. In 1946, Al Capp's Li'l Abner newspaper ran a contest to depict "Lena the Hyena", the world's ugliest woman.

Basil Wolverton is one of the most polarizing artists in comic history, but gained a strong cult following at the same time. The man is notorious for his unforgettable depictions of wacky, grotesque and ugly people. Basil Wolverton is one of the most polarizing artists in comic history, but gained a strong cult following at the same time. 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".

FREE shipping on qualifying offers. Book by Wolverton, Basil. It doesn't get much stranger than Basil Wolverton, once called the "producer of preposterous pictures of peculiar people. His caricatures have at once fascinated and repulsed people, but once you get past the superficial grossness of his faces, you will see a true master artist. This volume is 144 pages filled with "Wolvertoniana.

Basil Wolverton (1909–1978) created some of the funniest, most bizarre, and most influential cartoon drawings in the history of the medium. Wolverton got his start drawing the exceptionally strange sci-fi comic Spacehawk, which began running in 1940. He entered the humor field with Powerhouse Pepper, a strip starring a naïve, likable strong-man, which ran from 1942 to 1948. In 1946, Wolverton gained national recognition by winning a contest which asked Li’l Abner readers to draw Lower Slobbovia’s ugliest woman, Lena the Hyena

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