Winner of a 1925 high school poster contest for his entry “Sobriety first, safety follows,” 16-year-old Basil Wolverton’s effort was declared a real work of art by all. Throughout his Vancouver High ...

Cartoonist Basil Wolverton’s biomorphic caricatures are anything but pretty. But that didn’t stop him from becoming one of the most influential cartoonists of the 1960s underground comix movement -- a ...

Before the debut of Spacehawk, Basil Wolverton had developed several previous science fiction adventure heroes, such as Marco of Mars and Steve Grover of the Stratosphere Patrol. Despite their general ...

In an industry with a history full of ridiculously creative artists and writers, Basil Wolverton still stands out. With an output that spans from Spacehawk to Powerhouse Pepper, Brain Bats of Venus to ...

The 2024 record price for Basil Wolverton was for Basil Wolverton - Mel Blanc Illustration Original Art (undated). Wolverton applies his unique underground style to the "Man of a Thousand Voices The ...

1950s cartoonist Wolverton (Spacehawk, Powerhouse Pepper) has long been a subject of cult fascination among comics fans for his quirky material and unmistakable "textured" inking style that prefigures ...

For many years, Mad Magazine hyped Don Martin as “Mad's maddest artist.” Martin's work featured square-headed, dimwitted idiots who were forever doing gross, improbable things while accompanied by ...

For better or for worse, master cartoonist Basil Wolverton may have single-handedly altered thousands of boys’ psyches. In a 50-year career, marvelously surveyed here, Wolverton provided 13-year-old ...

Basil Wolverton created all by himself a school of comic art called The Spaghetti and Meatball school of design, with his drawings of slimily dripping monsters and the laborious texturing he gave to ...

Thank you for Alex Chun’s article about cartoonist Basil Wolverton (“Just Mad About Basil Wolverton,” Oct. 4). I remember how Wolverton burst into fame in 1946 when Al Capp’s “Li’l Abner” comic strip ...

Basil Wolverton was an American artist born in 1909 in Central Point, Oregon, United States. He was known for his grotesques of bizarre or misshapen people. Wolverton passed away in 1978 and lived in ...

With over 300 works on paper, plus paintings, sculptures, and furniture, The Way I See It: Selections from the KAWS Collection includes work by artists of every stripe.