tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28426681.post5532418375462546956..comments2023-11-05T20:19:44.812+13:00Comments on Ambassador Watch: "The van Gogh of the Gross-Out"Gavinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03060097218905523899noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28426681.post-76763094049320616602009-07-26T19:45:12.211+12:002009-07-26T19:45:12.211+12:00The only thing I liked about the WCG was Basil Wol...The only thing I liked about the WCG was Basil Wolverton. But then I read Mad Magazine as kid too. Does that make me misogynistic?<br /><br />I think of all those boring Spokesman Club meetings where the only entertaining thing was Basil's drawings in the Club Manual.<br /><br />PS: I could have done with out his apocalyptic drawings. Those did give me nightmares. AMERICAN KABUKIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11064036099785125749noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28426681.post-69252444756153892772009-07-24T11:47:16.590+12:002009-07-24T11:47:16.590+12:00Mel said, "....and has the alternate name of ...Mel said, "....and has the alternate name of "Loma the Blowhwa"?"<br /><br />MY COMMENT - No Mel, that was actually part of the problem with HWA unfortunately for poor daughter Dorothy - "Loma didn't Blowhwa". <br /><br />RichardLake of Fire Church of Godnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28426681.post-91667344749569366082009-07-24T08:43:43.249+12:002009-07-24T08:43:43.249+12:00Good man, that Basil Wolverton. Not many made it ...Good man, that Basil Wolverton. Not many made it to the front cover of LIFE.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28426681.post-48164070727684016182009-07-24T07:51:46.064+12:002009-07-24T07:51:46.064+12:00Since the Herbie Worship Archive has now imbibed o...Since the Herbie Worship Archive has now imbibed of the GCI Kool-Aid, <em>The Bible Story</em> has been removed from Internet circulation. Or so they thought.<br /><br />Get copies of PDFs of TBS <a href="http://armstrongsurvivor.com/?p=1308" rel="nofollow">here</a>.<br /><br />For a look at 87 of the gruesome pictures that children of the church were exposed to courtesy of TBS, see "Our Own Private Apocalypse" on ISA <a href="http://armstrongsurvivor.com/?p=1321" rel="nofollow">Part 1</a>, and <a href="http://armstrongsurvivor.com/?p=1327" rel="nofollow">Part 2</a>.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28426681.post-39364228222181511632009-07-24T06:30:27.493+12:002009-07-24T06:30:27.493+12:00Picture #5 in the slide show sure looks a little l...Picture #5 in the slide show sure looks a little like old Herbie when he saw the new coeds coming on campus!GLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28426681.post-51376379385336383842009-07-24T02:41:18.140+12:002009-07-24T02:41:18.140+12:00Even in my days as a die-hard member out in Pasade...Even in my days as a die-hard member out in Pasadena I never liked ANY of Wolverton's bizarre artwork - and I can't help but think that many other members quietly felt the same way.<br /><br />Two comments included in the NYT slide show portion pretty much sums up my views:<br /><br />"The images in pen and ink — Wolverton worked almost exclusively in this medium — were a virtuoso exercise in bad taste, made all the weirder for being so meticulously executed." <br /><br />And a reference to...<br /><br />"...Wolverton's appetite, which could verge on the pathological, for deformations and mutilations of human flesh."<br /><br />I personally knew a number of other Church members who were talented artists, and much of their excellent work is FAR more deserving of being displayed in a New York art gallery instead of Wolverton's visual monstrousities.<br /><br />Come to think of it, though, I rather consider Wolverton's grotesque art to be quite symbolic and representative of COG religion - sort of a graphic expression of the idealogy at one time we all so foolishly bought into.Leonardonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28426681.post-69100187579910932042009-07-24T02:32:18.005+12:002009-07-24T02:32:18.005+12:00Given what The New York Times could have said abou...Given what The New York Times could have said about the (old) WCG, their take was rather mild. I was disappointed that the slide only had one "apocalyptic" image, however.Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15612680057194509073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28426681.post-19946434085639812652009-07-24T01:57:34.460+12:002009-07-24T01:57:34.460+12:00The Times review is indeed scathing when it deems ...The Times review is indeed scathing when it deems Wolverton's work as "spectacularly misogynistic."<br /><br />However, for Wolverton's work to be associated with Michelangelo’s “Last Judgment" is rarified praise.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28426681.post-82604088335078913452009-07-24T01:18:10.425+12:002009-07-24T01:18:10.425+12:00Apparently, when Wolverton won Al Capp's conte...Apparently, when Wolverton won Al Capp's contest for drawing "Lena the Hyena"(AKA: the ugliest girl In the world), his winning drawing was <a href="http://www.toonopedia.com/lena.jpg" rel="nofollow">this one,</a> from the total of seven which Basil submitted.<br /><br />Does anyone have a link to any of the other six submissions?<br /><br />And, is it true that the most hideous of Basil's submissions has never been allowed to be seen by the public, and has been kept in a locked vault in 'Area 51' for the good of humanity, and has the alternate name of "Loma the Blowhwa"?Melnoreply@blogger.com