Mike Bocianowski's Blog – April 2010 Archive (2)

I found this article on the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive website.



Paul Coker Jr. is one of those cartoonists that always seems to be overlooked, yet he

is one of the most talented and stylistically ubiquitous artists of

modern times. His drawings have appeared in advertisements, on greeting

cards and in the pages of Mad Magazine for over half… Continue

American graphic artist and cartoonist Basil Wolverton is famous for his gross-out drawings of dopey, deranged, men and women (one of which graced a rather famous issue of MAD magazine in

1954). Active from the 1940s to the 1970s (he died in 1978),

Wolverton's client list, such as Marvel Comics, Topps bubblegum, EC

Comics and Cracked magazine, enabled him to inspire whole generations of

warped sensibilities. Notice the exaggerations! Maybe the…

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