If you were a preteenager in the 1950s and had precocious friends or a with-it dad, it’s a good bet you knew the cartoons of Basil Wolverton, the Michelangelo of Mad magazine, even if you didn’t know his name.
Like rock ’n’ roll and beatniks, Mad was a freakish spawn of the A-bomb era. It was like an emanation from some dark, Dada side of Disney; a stink bomb planted in the suburban Eden; and a preview of the underground-comics era to come. Wolverton, who is the subject of a career survey at Barbara Gladstone Gallery in Chelsea this summer, was Mad’s early signature artist, the one who embodied its sick-and-proud humor.
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bill what was that plastic wacky car figure i gave you many years back called??
nutty mads by marx part of the weirdo movement of the 60's and certainly influenced by wolverton.
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- bill 7-27-2009 2:23 pm
bill what was that plastic wacky car figure i gave you many years back called??
- Skinny 7-28-2009 3:25 pm [add a comment]
nutty mads by marx part of the weirdo movement of the 60's and certainly influenced by wolverton.
- bill 7-28-2009 4:13 pm [add a comment]