Basil Wolverton
Comic Strip Creator
1909 – 1978
Who was Basil Wolverton?
Basil Wolverton was an American cartoonist, illustrator, comic book writer-artist, and professed "Producer of Preposterous Pictures of Peculiar People who Prowl this Perplexing Planet" whose many publishers included Marvel Comics and Mad.
His drawings have elicited a wide range of reactions. Cartoonist Will Elder said he found Wolverton's technique "outrageously inventive, defying every conventional standard yet upholding a very unusual sense of humor. He was a refreshing original," while Jules Feiffer stated, "I don't like his work. I think it's ugly".
He was posthumously inducted into the comic book industry's Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1991.
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- Born
- Jul 9, 1909
Central Point - Children
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Lived in
- Central Point
- Died
- Dec 31, 1978
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