Scoop Scuttle and His Pals: The Crackpot Comics of Basil Wolverton

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By Basil Wolverton

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Scoop Scuttle and His Pals showcases the crackpot comics of Basil Wolverton, a legendary Mad magazine cartoonist. This collection revives ultra-rare comics like Scoop Scuttle, Mystic Moot, Bingbang Buster, and Jumpin' Jupiter, restored to highlight Wolverton's intricate line work, often lost in original low-quality printings. Readers will delight in his warped imagination and wacky visual humour.
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Scoop Scuttle and His Pals: The Crackpot Comics of Basil Wolverton

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Ideal for fans of vintage comics, humour aficionados, and readers interested in the history of comic art and illustration.

Collects, for the first time, the complete adventures of four of the influential Mad magazine cartoonist's more arcane comics creations: Scoop Scuttle, Mystic Moot, Bingbang Buster, and Jumpin' Jupiter - restored, as they've never been seen before

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In this rip-roaring retrospective of the influential Mad magazine cartoonist, Basil Wolverton's often-warped imagination combines with his outlandishly wacky visual humour to fascinate and delight.

Scoop Scuttle and His Pals: The Crackpot Comics of Basil Wolverton collects the ultra-rare treasures Scoop Scuttle, Mystic Moot, Bingbang Buster, and Jumpin' Jupiter – as they've never been seen before!

Due to the rock-bottom printing methods of ten-cent comic books, Wolverton's intricate line work was routinely obscured, and often obliterated. In this collection, every effort has been made to restore the art to its original splendour, and to at last present the uniquely detailed graphics of this justly revered comic book master.

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Wolverton infused a humming, frenetic energy into his Scoop Scuttle stories. There is much enjoyment and some enlightenment to gain, revealing him as one of the most gifted and resilient screwball artists of his era. -- The Comics Journal

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781683963974

Publisher: Fantagraphics

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 08 June 2021

Country: United States

Imprint: Fantagraphics

Illustration: 192 Illustrations

Contributors:

Edited by Greg Sadowski

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 204.0mm

Height: 266.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 192

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Basil Wolverton Fiction Graphic Novels Humour

About the Author

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. Greg Sadowski is a writer, editor, and designer (Creeping Death from Neptune, Brain Bats of Venus, B. Krigstein, Supermen!, Four Color Fear) living on the Jersey shore.

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