The Original Art of Basil Wolverton - Hardcover

Glenn Bray; Doug Harvey

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0867196874 ISBN 13: 9780867196870

Publisher: Last Gasp & Grand Central Press, 2015

Synopsis

Glenn Bray, Doug Harvey

About this title

From Booklist:

Wolverton was perhaps the most distinctively eccentric artist ever to work in mainstream comic books. The obsessive detail of his singular approach—loopy, broadly exaggerated figures given realism and weight through the use of heavy stippling—led LIFE magazine to dub it the “spaghetti-and-meatballs school of design.” Although zany humor strips like Powerhouse Pepper are his best-known stuff, his lesser-known, serious efforts, such as the superhero-science fiction hybrid Spacehawk, possess a primitive, elemental dynamism. Wolverton achieved a career breakthrough in 1946 by winning a contest to depict the world’s ugliest woman for the Li’l Abner newspaper strip, which led to similar commissions for MAD and other publications. In the 1950s, he produced characteristically idiosyncratic biblical illustrations, including a chilling interpretation of the Revelation. This lavish mounting of Wolverton’s decidedly lowbrow art accompanies an exhibition drawn from the collections of Glenn Bray, who befriended the artist late in his life. It emphasizes individual illustrations at the expense of his comic-strip work; may a volume focusing on that other aspect of his career soon follow. --Gordon Flagg

About this edition

• Publisher: Last Gasp & Grand Central Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0867196874
• ISBN 13: 9780867196870
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 100