<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/cc8f414b-d391-4ca9-b174-abff185ae622/9ADB6DF1-2C05-4574-950D-69CA7D858BA5/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/07/22/arts/20090723_BASIL_SLIDESHOW_index.html#" href="http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/07/22/arts/20090723_BASIL_SLIDESHOW_index.html#" style="font-size: 11px;">www.nytimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/07/22/arts/20090723_BASIL_SLIDESHOW_index.html#"><H2>The Michelangelo of Mad Magazine</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/07/22/arts/20090723_BASIL_SLIDESHOW_index.html#"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.nytimes.com/img/1E8E953E-939E-41BA-923C-4FA66BA8AF6B" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/07/22/arts/20090723_BASIL_SLIDESHOW_index.html#"><DIV class="caption">Holland Cotter writes: "If you were a pre-teen in the 1950s and had precocious friends or a with-it dad, it's a good bet you knew the cartoons of Basil Wolverton, the Michelangelo of Mad magazine, even if you didn't know his name." <DIV class="singleRule"></DIV> "Opera Star," circa 1950 </DIV></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/07/22/arts/20090723_BASIL_SLIDESHOW_2.html#" href="http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/07/22/arts/20090723_BASIL_SLIDESHOW_2.html#" style="font-size: 11px;">www.nytimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/07/22/arts/20090723_BASIL_SLIDESHOW_2.html#"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.nytimes.com/img/B04649DE-C775-4CB3-A20E-0AC14C220389" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/07/22/arts/20090723_BASIL_SLIDESHOW_2.html#"><DIV class="caption">"Like rock 'n' roll and beatniks, Mad was a freakish spawn of the A-bomb era. It was like an emanation from some dark, Dada side of Disney; a stink bomb planted in the suburban Eden; and a preview of the an underground-comics era to come. Wolverton, who is the subject of a career survey at Barbara Gladstone Gallery in Chelsea this summer, was Mad's signature artist, the one who embodied its sick-and-proud humor." <DIV class="singleRule"></DIV> "Smacker," circa 1950</DIV></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/07/22/arts/20090723_BASIL_SLIDESHOW_3.html#" href="http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/07/22/arts/20090723_BASIL_SLIDESHOW_3.html#" style="font-size: 11px;">www.nytimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/07/22/arts/20090723_BASIL_SLIDESHOW_3.html#"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.nytimes.com/img/485D2260-8B2C-41E8-87BD-B5C87E57E403" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/07/22/arts/20090723_BASIL_SLIDESHOW_3.html#"><DIV class="caption">"His specialty was a beyond-grotesque species of fictional portraiture, typified by the dog-toothed, bushy-browed, linguine-haired 'Beautiful Girl of the Month' seen on the cover of Mad's 1954 takeoff on Life magazine." <DIV class="singleRule"></DIV> "Miss Flentney Bunt," 1955</DIV></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; 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