Vancouver
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, Washington) is an American
editorial cartoonist
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who is best known for his
satiric
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pages in '' Mad'', his ''Weekly Wolvertoon'' website and his contributions as associate editor of ''
The Plain Truth
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''.
Biography
As the son of cartoonist
Basil Wolverton
Basil Wolverton (July 9, 1909 – December 31, 1978) at the
Pacific Northwest
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, surrounded by imaginative illustrations and cartoons, and attended college in Los Angeles. In the early 1970s, he launched his career as a graphic designer and saw his first cartoon and comics published in ''CAR-toons'', ''CB Radio'', '' Creative Computing'' and ''Youth''.
In the late 1970s, he relocated back to the Pacific Northwest for full-time freelancing in illustration, magazine art direction, advertising and publication design, corporate image and creative consulting. In 1985, he returned to California to serve as art director for ''The Plain Truth'', taking on more editorial duties as the years passed. He expanded his editorial cartooning in the mid-1990s at the same time he began contributing to ''Mad'', drawing ten pieces for the magazine between 1994 and 2002. His work is currently syndicated by
Cagle Cartoons
In 2001, cartoonist Daryl Cagle started Cagle Cartoons, Inc., which distributes the cartoons of sixty editorial cartoonists and fourteen columnists to more than 850 subscribing newspapers in the United States and around the world, including over h ...
to over 800 newspapers.
Wolverton is also a painter, sculptor, and writer. He has authored two novels, "Chasing 120" (2014) and "The Remnant" (2016).
A member of the National Cartoonists Society and the
Association of American Editorial Cartoonists
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, Wolverton lives in southwest Washington State with his wife Kaye.