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.
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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. Among 500,000 entries, Wolverton's was the winner.
In the 1950s, Wolverton produced 17 comic-book horror and science-fiction stories for Marvel and other comic-book publishers, including one story by author Daniel Keyes, which led to him being "hailed for creating uniquely grotesque monsters"
In 1968, Wolverton did the Ugly Posters series of trading cards for Topps and later returned to main stream comics in the early 70's.
Wolverton's son, editorial cartoonist Monte Wolverton, draws in a style similar to his father's; the younger Wolverton also worked for The Plain Truth and contributed to Mad. Several cartoonists have been influenced by Wolverton's "spaghetti-and-meatball" style, including Ed "Big Daddy" Roth.
Jens Terje offers us the following files:
The Life and Comics of Basil Wolverton Volume 1 & 2 (2015; 2019)
The Bible Story Vol I-VI (1982-88)
Basil Wolverton - Far-Out Weird Ass Tales Of The Future 1-3
The Culture Corner by Basil Wolverton (2010) (HC)
The Complete Mystic Moot by Basil Wolverton [REVISED SteveD]
Millie the Model 009 (Timely 1947)
Basil Wolverton - Mr. Monsters Weird Tales Of The Future (1987)
The Wolverton Bible (2009)
Wolvertoons - The Art of Basil Wolverton (1989)
Basil Wolverton's Planet of terror
Basil Wolverton's Gateway to horror
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Many thanks Jens Terje for this wonderful contribution.
Thank you very much for this splendid repertoire of a great artist
ReplyDeleteMany thanks to Jens Terje for this rich repertoire of works by an artist whom I greatly admire.
ReplyDeleteMany thanks !!
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ReplyDeleteThanks. I do not find "The Life and Comics of Basil Wolverton Volume 1 & 2 (2015; 2019)" in the folder. My fault?
ReplyDeleteThanks again for "The Life and Comics of Basil Wolverton Volume 1 & 2 (2015; 2019)"
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ReplyDeleteBasil Wolverton is not to my taste, but I have downloaded some of the files with his works - generously contributed by Jens Terje, thank you! -, to learn a little more about its characteristics.
Some claim that Wolverton was a precursor to the underground comix of the 1960s. If so, then it is extraordinary that he wrote and illustrated books with children's Bible stories, and even more extraordinary is that they were published posthumously in the 1980s by one of the most conservative churches in the United States.
I don't want to finish without adding that her most famous work 'LENA THE HYENA' possibly ( it leaves me with the impression that the fact is true ) had a famous actress of the 1930s as a model. And I advise you to see the section 'Kissers for Misters and Misses' on pages 43-45 of 'The Art of Basil Wolverton': You will agree with me that the exhibition is very "Hollywoodian", too.
Have a happy 2025 full of comix.
Drako 🐲