Basil Wolverton

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Basil Wolverton in 1950

Basil Wolverton (born July 9, 1909 in Central Point , Oregon , † December 31, 1978 in Vancouver , Washington ) was an American comic book artist , illustrator and caricaturist.

life and work

Wolverton, who had received no artistic training, published his first drawing in America's Humor magazine in 1926 , but his first comics Spacehawks and Disk-Eyes did not appear until twelve years later, after he had already established himself as a newspaper draftsman . He created his first humorous series in 1941 for Marvel Comics . In 1954 he briefly drew for MAD and then for Panic before retiring from the comic industry to work as a cartoonist and illustrator.

With his particular style, Wolverton influenced many underground artists. His most famous drawings included a reference to Al Capp's strip Li'l Abner , entitled Lena the Hyena , which featured on the cover of Life magazine in 1946 . In German, Wolverton published the Cherry Bim series in various publications of the Alfons Semrau Verlag in the 1950s . The biblical story for young and old drawn by him appeared in the 1970s. In 1991 Wolverton was inducted into the Jack Kirby Hall of Fame . In 2000 he was accepted into the Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame .

literature

  • Andreas C. Knigge: Comic Lexicon . Ullstein Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin and Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-548-36554-X , p. 456.
  • Basil Wolverton: Spacehawk . Fantagraphics Books Inc., Seattle 2012, ISBN 978-1-60699-550-1 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Basil Wolverton on lfb.it (Italian) , accessed October 4, 2012
  2. ↑ a b c Basil Wolverton on lambiek.net (English) , accessed on October 4, 2012
  3. ↑ a b c d Andreas C. Knigge: Comic Lexikon . Ullstein Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin and Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-548-36554-X , p. 456.
  4. ↑ 1991 Harvey Awards (English) ( Memento August 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on October 4, 2012
  5. ↑ Complete List of Eisner Award Winners (English) ( Memento from October 16, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Wolverton, Basil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American comic book artist, illustrator, and caricaturist
DATE OF BIRTH July 9, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Central Point , Oregon
DATE OF DEATH December 31, 1978
Place of death Vancouver , Washington