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Informationen zum Autor Basil Wolverton was born near Medford, Oregon in 1909 and died in 1978. His Fantagraphics-published books include Basil Wolverton's Culture Corner and The Wolverton Bible, and his work is featured in Supermen!: The First Wave of Comic Book Heroes 1936-1941. Klappentext This is the first in a two-volume retrospective--collecting full comics stories, unpublished art, ads, etc.--and biography of the famous Mad cartoonist. Zusammenfassung This is the first of two volumes reprinting copious amounts of comicsstories and recounting the career of cartoonist Basil Wolverton. Based on hiscorrespondence and journals! the biographical portion of the books followWolverton from childhood to adult day-to-day life as freelance cartoonist!itinerant handyman! persistent contest enterer! and local pastor of the RadioChurch of God. Wolverton lived and worked in the Pacific Northwest! unique amongthe first generation of comic book pioneers. In the precious period before theindustry calcified into a commercial institution! Wolverton was free to workunder the radar to explore in detail his weird tales of the future. All ofWolverton's non-humorous comic book stories will be presented in full! alongwith prime examples of his humorous comics and dozens of pages of unpublishedart! including editorial drawings! advertisements! caricatures! pulpillustrations! rejected comic book covers! and unsold features.
