Is This Man Responsible For Many of Your Nightmares?

by cameo-d 12 Replies latest watchtower scandals

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  cameo-d

  http://www.hollywoodjesus.com/wolverton03.htm

  2 Basil Wolverton (a comic artist) was drawn to HWA's radio broadcast, The World Tomorrow, in the 1930's. He was baptized in the WCG in 1941 and ordained an elder in 1943. After HWA moved to Pasadena, California in 1946, he let Basil Wolverton pastor a congregation in the Portland, Oregon area. Wolverton went from comics to artistic work in horror and sci-fi comics in 1952. From 1954 to 1955 he worked for Mad magazine and then retired from comics until the 1970's. During the 1950's HWA had Wolverton draw a series of horrifying and grotesque scenes which depicted the "end of the age." These drawings were first featured in the Plain Truth and then later placed in 6 volumes of The Bible Story (the early edition he also wrote; the installments of the Bible Story were published in the Plain Truth, beginning in November 1958). These soft bound volumes were published by Ambassador College from 1961-1968. These illustrations were later reprinted in two booklets, 1975 in Prophecy and The Book of Revelation Unveiled at Last. All during the 60's and 70's he remained active in the local WCG ministry while he worked on The Bible Story (which covered the Old Testament only). He had a stroke in 1974 and died December 31, 1978. Read: Basil Wolverton and "The Bible Story" (letter to ESN). Note: Monte Wolverton is son of Basil Wolverton. He was a local elder in Pasadena in 1988 and in 2005 was Managing Editor of Plain Truth Ministries (PTM). He also has a cartoon site of his own
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  cameo-d

  I thought this was an interesting post from another site.

  I think I have seen something at JWN about a connection between WT and COG. Maybe you all can enlighten me.

  But this Wolverton's artwork looks very reminescent of what I have seen in Awake and also I did see a post that he did artwork for WT but I have not been able to document that.

  I Found Parallels Between Jehovah's Witnesses and Armstrongites:

  August 9, 2004

  I recently ran across this 1971 book by William J. Schnell relating his Thirty Years A Watchtower Slave. Although he is describing the Jehovah's Witnesses, the methods of mind control could apply to Armstrongism. Another book I've read, The Watchtower Files (1985) by Duane Magnani, also caused me to draw parallels between JW's and Armstrongites. I realize that cults employ similar methods to gain and keep recruits, but the similarities between the methods of Herbert W. and Judge Rutherford are so great that I have wondered if Herbert's intense "Bible study" of the 1920's included a heavy dose of JW publications. Is there any evidence that HWA was directly influenced by the JW's or do cultists just tend to think a like? --J. G.

  Reply: Herbert Armstrong is known to have plagiarized from JW's material, along with Mormonism (which have their roots in the occult), 7th-day Adventists and others. This has been exposed inHerbert W. Armstrong's Religious Rootsandis also brought out in chapter 3 and 6 ofMystery of the Ages (a critical review).

  http://www.exitsupportnetwork.com/letters/ltrs04.htm
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  compound complex

  Being a former member of the WCG and being involved with entrepreneurial explorations for major corporations, it is not difficult to now understand the simple formula of economics and "scare tactics" in which a former advertising man used on the weak but duped. As not to offend, I also consider myself formerly deceived and have no regrets because I’ve moved onward.

  Exiter, 2004

  Thanks, cameo:

  So many self-confessed child survivors of yet another exclusivistic and authoritarian religion on the support group whose link you put up.

  CoCo
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  cameo-d

  What about the Armageddon cartoon pictures?

  Did it surprise you or have you seen his work before?
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  Black Sheep

  I thought he was a very good artist

  
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  compound complex

  The big A pics are certainly scary; those of the WT are a bit less hard-edged yet nonetheless gruesome enough.

  Did it surprise you or have you seen his work before?

  Yes, in Mad magazine, but I didn't realize it was his.

  CC
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  cameo-d

  Would it make any difference to most JWs to know that this "worldly" man was also producing the same artwork with slight differences in composition for other religious organizations?

  Would JWs even view it as a travesty that WT would employ such as one who would be engaged in other religions as well as the political arena like Mad Magazine?

  Would JWs see this as a conflict of interests or would it just not be of any importance where the Awake artwork came from?
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  cameo-d

  Here's some artwork you don't want to miss!

  http://www.syncspacela.com/previous.html
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  cameo-d

  This info just came out in late January.

  Less well known and understood is his work for the Worldwide Church of God (WCG), headed until 1986 by controversial radio and television evangelist Herbert Armstrong. From 1953 through 1974, Wolverton produced for the church a narrative of the Old Testament with over 550 illustrations — plus over 30 astounding illustrations inspired by the book of Revelation and over 170 extreme cartoons in the inimitable Wolverton style for various church publications.

  Now, coincidentally in the 100th anniversary year of Wolverton’s birth, Fantagraphics Books (authorized by WCG) is releasing a collection of all this work in a single incredible volume, titled The Wolverton Bible — The Old Testament and Book of Revelation Through the Pen of Basil Wolverton — complete with commentary by myself and an incisive foreword by EC comics expert (and legendary guitarist and composer) Grant Geissman. I worked on compiling the book for over a year – yet I was entirely blown away when I received the advance copy!
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  cameo-d

  Because Armstrong built his entire organization around two cycles of 19 years each, everything that the (later renamed) Worldwide Church of God) taught, was of great urgency. It was a message warning of what was to come, not a message to gain converts.

  What was to come in the mind of Herbert W. Armstrong was horrific to say the least. The second and final time cycle was set to expire in 1972 and what followed after that was to be World War III involving the destruction of both the USA and UK by a United States of Europe. To illustrate the key booklet that Armstrong offered free of charge on The World Tomorrow radio program about all of this, he turned to Basil Wolverton.

  In turn, Wolverton turned the 1956 Armstrong booklet called 1975 in Prophecy, into a series of horrific illustrations depicting the Great Tribulation of the biblical book of Revelation .

  http://www.wordiq.com/definition/Basil_Wolverton