B. Wolverton's artwork is aces
It features the freakiest faces
Grotesquely extending
contorting and bending
like pre-plastic surgery cases
All art by the late, great, Basil Wolverton.
Be sure to click on the image above to enlarge.
It's Wolverton Week at Limerwrecks.
He reached fame by drawing up Lena
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Each wart, overbite
and pimple drawn tight
for comic book or magazeena
Old Basil would always add more
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Each gruesome detail
he'd ink without fail
and stipple them down to the pore
In sharpest detail, never blurry
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They loved him at MAD
His wrinkles were rad
His motto was "Wart? Who, me worry?"
His version of Alfred E. Neuman
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The gap in its teeth
was matched underneath
by abscesses leaking albumin
Now wrinkles,he'd put a lot on
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But sometimes too much
is just the right touch
His portrait of Reagan was spot on
When subjects for portraits he'd pose
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But as Basil drew
anxiety grew
for they saw every flaw he'd expose