| Creator Basil Wolverton (1909-1978) |
| Profession Cartoonist, Writer, Penciller, Inker, Letterer |
| Total Entries 40 |
| Articles Creeping Death and Snakemeat: Basil Wolverton and Max Clotfelter – The Comics Journal Basil Wolverton – Lambiek Comiclopedia Brain Bats of Venus: The Life and Comics of Basil Wolverton – The Comics Journal |
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Basil Wolverton, a “producer of preposterous pictures of peculiar people,” was a unique, never to be duplicated screwball cartoonist. In fact, he invented his particular style of cartooning, which featured icky, otherwordly humans with exposed organs and glands (which some found grotesque) and unique, inventive creatures with painstakingly sculpted, crosshatched features, spaghetti-like hair (Life magazine wrote that he invented the “Spaghetti and Meatball school of design”), and wacky, rhyming, poetic cartoon captions and names (Leanbean Green, Nell No-Smell). In the late thirties Wolverton began drawing for his first comic book, Circus Comics. He then created the intergalactic superhero Spacehawk, but after the war switched gears and leaned toward the absurd, creating the adventures of Powerhous Pepper, a not-so-bright boxer and “superhero,” for Timely Comics. Featuring alliterating, rhyming dialogue, it became his most successful comic book feature, running for ten years. ~ Drew Friedman’s Heroes of the Comics: Portraits of the Legends of Comic Books – Fantagraphics (2014)
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