# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/basil-wolverton
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:31:43.434Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/basil-wolverton"
name: "Basil Wolverton"
slug: "basil-wolverton"
description: "Basil Wolverton was an American cartoonist and illustrator known for his intricately detailed grotesques of bizarre or misshapen people. Wolverton was described as \"Producer of Preposterous Pictures of Peculiar People who Prowl this Perplexing Planet.\" His many publishers included Marvel Comics and Mad magazine."
tagline: "American cartoonist (1909–1978)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Basil_wolverton.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1909-07-09"
deathDate: "1978-12-31"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.26
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.233732
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2012452/"
    handle:    "nm2012452"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/2030388"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%84_%D9%88%D9%84%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "باسل ولفرتون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil_Wolverton"
    title: "Basil Wolverton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil_Wolverton"
    title: "Basil Wolverton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil_Wolverton"
    title: "Basil Wolverton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil_Wolverton"
    title: "Basil Wolverton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil_Wolverton"
    title: "Basil Wolverton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/4271dcf8-837e-4906-9e69-3ceaa5c487cc"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q810047"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump