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Basil Wolverton's Weird Worlds - Artists Edition HC
Basil Wolverton was one of the most unusual, innovative and influential cartoonists of all time. He drew the cover of a Life Magazine (the winner of Al Capp‘s legendary ugliest woman contest), early issues of Harvey Kurtzman‘s edited MAD Comics, and countless bizarre caricatures. This Artist’s Edition features an incredible array of comic book stories and pages, including Powerhouse Pepper and Spacehawk, a selection of his classic end of the world illustrations, and a good helping of zany characters of all manner, as only Wolverton could have done them!
An Artist’s Edition presents complete stories with each page scanned from the actual original art. While appearing to be in black and white, each page was scanned in color to mimic as closely as possible the experience of viewing the actual original art—for instance, corrections, blue pencils, paste-overs, all the little nuances that make original art unique. Each page is printed the same size as drawn, and the paper selected is as close as possible to the original art board.
An Artist’s Edition presents complete stories with each page scanned from the actual original art. While appearing to be in black and white, each page was scanned in color to mimic as closely as possible the experience of viewing the actual original art—for instance, corrections, blue pencils, paste-overs, all the little nuances that make original art unique. Each page is printed the same size as drawn, and the paper selected is as close as possible to the original art board.
176 pages, Hardcover
Published January 1, 2014
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August 23, 2016
Eisnein's No.34 Favorite Artist/Artbook. Check Out No.35 Right HERE. Go Back to No.1 HERE.
For a Basil Wolverton fan, even a fairly recent one like myself, this new 'Basil Wolverton's Weird Worlds: Artist's Edition' from IDW is like being handed the keys to the Wolverton Library Vault (which doesn't actually exist), to flip through all the pages of original art and geek out until felled by the inevitable spastic fits and seizures.
It's officially the tallest book I own; Kramer's Ergot 7 is 16" x 21" tall, and so are the Sunday Press 'Little Nemo' books; the Hal Foster 'Tarzan' reprints are a pathetic 15" x 19.75". Pfft.
This colossal facsimile is a truly impractical 16" x 22.5", and makes casual perusal into an awkward, uncomfortable affair. Man, I love these fucking things.
On another note, the 'Mike Mignola's Hellboy in Hell: Artist's Edition' arrived as well, and I plan on doing a full review on both. For anyone interested in these editions, the size varies greatly from book to book, since artists each favor different size pages, and the format is set to be an exact facsimile. So the Hellboy book is much smaller than the Wolverton book, 12.5" x 17.5". It's a thing of beauty.
For the sake of comparison: the Wolverton Artist's Edition is front row center, with Kramer's Ergot 7 on the left and Little Nemo in Slumberland on the right; the Mignola Artist's Edition is in the row above it:
Full review to come.
Eisnein's No.34 Favorite Artist/Artbook. Check Out No.35 Right HERE. Go Back to No.1 HERE.
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For a Basil Wolverton fan, even a fairly recent one like myself, this new 'Basil Wolverton's Weird Worlds: Artist's Edition' from IDW is like being handed the keys to the Wolverton Library Vault (which doesn't actually exist), to flip through all the pages of original art and geek out until felled by the inevitable spastic fits and seizures.
It's officially the tallest book I own; Kramer's Ergot 7 is 16" x 21" tall, and so are the Sunday Press 'Little Nemo' books; the Hal Foster 'Tarzan' reprints are a pathetic 15" x 19.75". Pfft.
This colossal facsimile is a truly impractical 16" x 22.5", and makes casual perusal into an awkward, uncomfortable affair. Man, I love these fucking things.
On another note, the 'Mike Mignola's Hellboy in Hell: Artist's Edition' arrived as well, and I plan on doing a full review on both. For anyone interested in these editions, the size varies greatly from book to book, since artists each favor different size pages, and the format is set to be an exact facsimile. So the Hellboy book is much smaller than the Wolverton book, 12.5" x 17.5". It's a thing of beauty.
For the sake of comparison: the Wolverton Artist's Edition is front row center, with Kramer's Ergot 7 on the left and Little Nemo in Slumberland on the right; the Mignola Artist's Edition is in the row above it:
Full review to come.
Eisnein's No.34 Favorite Artist/Artbook. Check Out No.35 Right HERE. Go Back to No.1 HERE.
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A Mysterious Review That Might Be Related to the Book in Question, But Written By A Friend Instead
December 1, 2018
Weird.
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