Extreme images have shaped Monte Wolverton's life. As son of legendary illustrator Basil Wolverton, Monte assimilated a rich graphic diet throughout his childhood in the Portland, Oregon area. During college in the creatively fertile Southern California of the late 60s, he launched his career by working for a small design group. He gained additional training at Pasadena's Art Center College of Design, and studied editorial photography with Look magazine's Earl Theison. Moving back to the Seattle and Portland areas, Wolverton ran an innovative design business, producing corporate image, advertising, publication design and comic illustration. His freelance clients included the US Forest Service, Peterson publishing and numerous local clients.

In the late 1980s Wolverton returned to Southern California as design director for Plain Truth, a large, faith-based publishing concern, leading a group of over 20 art directors, illustrators and photographers in producing three magazines and other publications and promotional materials. In 1994 he earned an interdisciplinary MA in creativity studies and management from Vermont's Goddard College.

In the late 1990s his humorous illustrations were featured regularly in MAD magazine. While continuing as managing editor of Plain Truth magazine, for the last 12 years Wolverton has produced his ascerbic and radical editorial cartoons, syndicated by Caglecartoons to over 900 publications weekly.

In recent years Wolverton has pursued fine art, synthesizing a unique vision of form and texture rooted in the distinctive style he shares with his late father.

Wolverton and his wife Kayte reside in Westlake Village, California with their two American Rat Terriers, Meg and Kirby.

 

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