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Wally Wood
Biography
Life and Career
Wally Wood was born on June 17, 1927, and started reading comics and drawing at an early age. He was strongly influenced by the styles of art by Alex Raymond, Flash Gordon, Milton Caniff Terry and the Pirates, Prince Hal Foster, "Brave," Will Eisner's The Spirit and, especially, Roy Crane's Wash Tubbs. Recalling his childhood, Wood said his dream in six years of age, finding a magic pencil that can draw any thing, predicted its future as an artist.
Ex-Wood Studio writer-artist anthology Bhob Stewart's 2003 biography. Cover Wood, from 1978.
mother of Natalie Wood was its first editor, in a sense, collecting his first drawings and turn them into your sewing machine for books. These early works, and mostly undated still exist today because of his actions and offer a glimpse of his progression as a young artist.
Wood graduated from high school in 1944, he signed with the United States Merchant Marine near the end of World War II, he enlisted on 11 paratroopers from the U.S. Army Airborne in 1946. He began training at Fort Benning, Georgia, for occupied Japan, and was assigned to the island of HokkaidÅ. Arriving in New York with her mother and brother Glenn, after his discharge in July 1948, Wood found employment as Bickford a waiter. During his time off, he took his portfolio of drawings thickness throughout midtown Manhattan, visiting every publisher he could find. He played briefly with the Hogarth School of Art (later changed to the cartoonists and illustrators of school), but left after one semester.
In October, after being rejected by all companies visited, Wood met fellow artist John Severin in the waiting room of a small publisher. After the two shared their experiences of trying to find work, Severin Wood invited to visit his studio, Charles William Harvey Studio, where he met Charlie Wood Stern, Harvey Kurtzman (who was working for Timely / Marvel) and Will Elder. In this Studio Wood learned that Will Eisner was looking for an artist of substance Spirit. He immediately visited Eisner and was hired on the spot.
Over the next year, Wood also became assistant to George Wunder, who took Milton Caniff strip Terry and the Pirates. Wood has his work "in the first place my own," as Chief Ob stacle, a continuous series of strips of a 1949 political newsletter. He entered the field of comics by letters, as he recalled in 1981: "The first job subscriptions to professional was the comic novel Fox in 1948. That lasted about a year. I also started doing backgrounds, then paint. Most of the things was the romance. To complete pages, which was $ 5 to page … Twice a week, I want to paint ten pages in a day. "
representative of the artists Renaldo Epworth Wood helped land their initial allocations of comics, making it clear whether this binding took the letter of the timber or his debut in comics art, the story of ten-page "tip off Woman" [sic] on Fox Comics Western Women Outlaws # 4 (cover-dated January 1949 the sale in late 1948). art Wood near the comic known not appear until Fox My Confession # 7 (August 1949), at which time he began working almost nonstop about the company My similar experience, My Secret Life, My Love Story, and my true love: Confession Exciting Stories. His first signed work is believed to be in My Confession # 8 (October 1949), with the name "Woody" half hidden in a theater marquee. He designed and painted two stories on the issue: "I was unwanted" (Nine pages) and "My reputation tarnished" (ten pages).
Wood began to co-EC co-penciling and inking the story with Harry Harrison "Too Busy For Love" (Modern Love # 5) and totally penciling the main story, "I Was Just a Cowgirl Playtime" in Saddle Romances # 11 (April 1950), covered by Harrison.
1950
Sky Masters comic strip by Jack Kirby (pencils) and wood (paint)
Working from a Manhattan studio in West 64th Street and Columbus Avenue, Wood began to attract attention in 1950 with his work of fiction highly detailed and imaginative to EC Comics Avon, some in collaboration with Joe Orlando. During this time, he drew on a wide variety of themes and genres, including adventure, romance (he really did not like of) war and horror, stories of messages (EC SuspenStories Shock) and satirical humor, eventually, to the writer / editor Harvey Kurtzman at Mad including a satire the publisher of Superman action brought against Captain Marvel publisher Fawcett DC called "Superduperman!" fighting Captain Marbles.
Wood was instrumental to convince editor William Gaines EC to launch a line of science fiction comics, Weird Science and Weird Fantasy (later combined with the single title Weird Science Fantasy). Wood designed and painted several dozen EC science fiction stories, many considered classics. Wood also had frequent entries in two-fisted tales and Tales from the Crypt, and the titles afterwards EC value, piracy and Aces High.
Working on scripts and pencil breakdowns by Jules Feiffer, Wood 25 years of age drew two months of the classic Will Eisner, comic-book Sunday newspaper supplement The Spirit, in 1952 the story arc "The Spirit in Outer Space. "Eisner, Wood points out, paid him" about $ 30 a week for enrollment, and backgrounds in The Spirit. Sometimes he paid U.S. $ 40 when I did the drawings, too. "
Books illustrated by Wood
Between 1957 and 1967, he produced two covers and interiors for over 60 themes of science-fiction digest Galaxy Science Fiction, illustrating the authors as Isaac Asimov, Philip K. Dick, Jack Finney, CM Kornbluth, Frederik Pohl, Robert Silverberg, Robert Sheckley, Clifford D. Simak, and Jack Vance. He painted six covers for Galaxy Science Fiction Novels between 1952 and 1958. His gag cartoons have appeared in men's magazines Dude, Gent and Nugget. He closed the first eight months of the syndicated 1958-1961 Sky Masters strip the Space Force, drawn by Jack Kirby. Wood expanded into book illustrations, including the issues of cover-picture (although not edits jacket) Titles Aladdin Books, 1959 reprinted in Bobbs Merrill, 1947 "Childhood of Famous Americans Series."
The Silver Age / Bronze Age
Moreover Wood made art and stories for companies large and small comics from Marvel (and their interaction Atlas Comics 1950) DC (including House of Mystery and the unknown Challengers Kirby) and Warren (Creepy and Eerie) for smaller companies such as Avon (worlds), Charlton (War and Attack Jungle Jim) Fox (Martin Kane, Private Eye), Golden Key (MARS Patrol Total War, Fantastic Voyage), Harvey (Unearthly Spectaculars), King Comics (Jungle Jim), Atlas / Seaboard (the destroyer), Juvenile Comics (Captain) Science and the toy company Wham-O (Wham-O Giant Comics). In 1965, Wood, Len Brown, and possibly Larry Ivie created THUNDER Agents Comics Tower. He wrote and drew the strip syndicated comic Christmas 1967, Christmas Caper Bucky. In 1970, he was a ghost artist for an episode of Prince Valiant.
Daredevil # 7 (April 1964): best-known work of wood for Marvel, starring Daredevil costume modern red
For Marvel during the Silver Age of comics, Wood's work as an illustrator, inker of Daredevil # 5-8 and inker (over Bob Powell) from issues # 9-11 costume established characteristic of the title character red (in issue # 7; see cover left). When Daredevil starred in Fantastic Four # 39-40, wood with paint the character along the pencil Jack Kirby, The cover and inside. Wood also designed and painted the first four installments of 10 pages of the company "Dr. Doom" feature in Astonishing Tales # 1-4 (August 1970 – February 1971), and wrote and drew stories for anthology horror / thriller in Tower of Shadows # 5-8 (May-November 1970) as well as other odd jobs.
In one of his final assignments, Wood returned to a character he helped define, the ink coverage of Frank Miller's Daredevil # 164 (May 1980).
In circles concerned with copyright and intellectual property, the wood is known as the artist's satirical signed Disneyland Memorial Orgy poster, which first appeared in the magazine Paul Krassner The realistic. The poster shows a series of Disney characters copyright in various unpleasant activities (including sexual acts and drug use), with signs dollar huge radiating the Cinderella Castle. Wood himself, as late as 1981, when asked who did the drawing, said only: "I prefer not to say anything about it! It was the most pirated design in history! Everyone was printing copies of that. I understand that some people got arrested for selling. I always thought that the material Disney was very sexy … Snow White, etc. "Disney took no legal action against any Krassner or realism, but if you sue a publisher of a black "Version of the poster, which used the image without permission is Krassner. The case was settled out of court.
During the 1960s, Wood made many business cards and products of humor Topps Chewing Gum, including the famous concept of roughs Topps "Mars Attacks 1962 cards before the final art by Bob Powell and Norman Saunders. Discovering (the from Roy Thomas), Jack Kirby returned to DC in 1970, Wood called editor Joe Orlando in an attempt to obtain the assignment of new ink work of Kirby, but that role has been filled by Vince Colletta. Wood continued to produce work for Marvel periodically during the 1970s, first as an inker and then worked in a handful comic book for DC, between 1975 and 1977, producing in particular various toppings for Plop!, pencils and paints to the issues of All Star Comics in the wood contributed to the creation of Power Girl, giving her enormous breasts and an opening in the chest of his costume that exposes most of her breasts, just covering the nipples. Also covered wood (more than Steve Ditko), in four editions Paul Levitz 'Stalker miniseries. Active with the 1970 Academy of Comic Book Arts, Wood also contributed to several annual editions of the ACBA Sketchbook. His last known whereabouts credit mainstream ink was Wonder Woman # 269, cover-dated July, 1980.
For several decades, many artists worked in the studio Wood. Associates and assistants included Dan Adkins, Richard Bassford, Tony Coleman, Nick Cuti, Leo and Diane Dillon, Larry Hama, Russ Jones, Wayne Howard, Paul Kirchner, Joe Orlando, Bill Pearson, Al Sirois, Ralph Reese, Bhob Stewart, Tatjana Wood and Mike Zeck.
Wood as publisher
In 1966, Wood launched the independent witzend magazine, a comic first alternative, a decade before Star Reach Mike Friedrich and Flo Steinberg's Big Apple Comix (for which designed the cover of wood and contributed a story). Wood offered his fellow professionals the opportunity to contribute illustrations and graphic stories that deviated from the usual conventions of the comics industry. After the fourth question, wood turning witzend on Bill Pearson, who continued as editor and publisher in the years 1970 and in the 1980s.
Marvel Comics Art of Wally Wood (1982) collects his 1970s and Dr. Doom fantasy stories.
In addition to harvested wood its characteristic Sally Forth, published in journals recruits U.S. Military and Overseas News Weekly from 1968-1974, in a series of four oversize (10 "x12") magazines. Pearson, 1993-95, reformatted the strip in a series of comics published by Eros Comix, a trademark of Fantagraphics Books, which in 1998 collected in a single whole race volume of 160 pages. [Citation needed]
In 1969, Wood has created another seminal independent comic book, Heroes, Inc. Presents Cannon, intended for his "Sally Forth Readers military. "[citation needed] Artists Steve Ditko and writer Ralph Reese and Ron Whyte is credited with leading the artist-writer of wood on three characteristics:" Cannon, The Misfits, "and Dragonella. The issue magazine format, the second was published in 1976 by Wood and CPL Gang Publications. Larry Hama an associate of Wood, said: "I did script Sally Forth about three stories and some of Cannon. I wrote the main story in the book reprinted Sally Forth first, which is actually dedicated to me, mainly because I lent the money to publish it to Woody. "
In 1980 and 1981, Wood published two editions a book full of pornographic comic, titled Gang Bang. It featured two stories explicit sex Sally Forth, and sexually explicit version of Disney Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, titled as white and Dorks Six, Terry and the Pirates, headed Perry and Privates, Prince Valiant, Prince Violate titled, Superman and Wonder Woman Meets entitled Stuporman Blunder Woman, Flash Gordon, Flash Gordon and Tarzan titled titled Starzan. A third issue, published posthumously, reprinted 1976-1977 Wood Malice in Wonderland, the magazine National Screw, wood and other material Weird Wally Wood-Fri Fantasy (1977). [Citation needed]
Final years
To most of his adult life, Wood suffered from chronic, unexplained headaches. In the 1970s, following attacks with alcoholism, Wood suffered from inadequate kidney. A stroke in 1978 caused a loss of vision in one eye. Faced with prospects of declining health and career, he committed suicide by firearm, three years later.
Wood was married three times. His first marriage was to artist Tatjana Wood, who later did extensive work as a colorist for comics.
EC editor Harvey Kurtzman, who had worked closely with Wood during the 1950s, once commented, "Wally had a tension in it, an intensity that he locked in a steam boiler built. I think I ate out his bowels, and work really used it. I think he gave some of the best jobs already been drawn, and I think it's to his credit that he put so much intensity in his work at great sacrifice to himself. "
Awards
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National Cartoonists Society Comic Book Division Awards, 1957, 1959 and 1965.
Alley Award for Best Pencil Artist, 1965
Alley Award, Best Paper Inking, 1966
Cartoonist Award for Best Foreign, Angoulme International Comics Festival, 1978
The Hall of Fame Jack Kirby, 1989
The Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame 1992
See also
List of Mad Magazine issues
Audio
Merry Marvel Marching Society record includes Voice of Wally Wood
Footnotes
Ab ^ Stewart, Bhob, ed. Against Grain: Mad Artist Wallace Wood. TwoMorrows Publishing, 2003. ISBN 1-893905-23-3 Trade paperback, hardcover ISBN 1-893905-28-4
^ Evanier, Mark, Mad Art (Publications Guptil Watson, 2002), p. 47, ISBN 0-8230-3080-6
^ Wally Wood interview, originally published in The Buyer's Guide # 403 (August 1, 1981), reprinted in Comic Book Artist # 14 (July 2001), p. 18 of the latter.
^ Wood Interview, Comic Book Artist # 14, p. 19
^ Guthridge, Sue. Tom Edison, inventor of the boy. Illustrated by Wood. New York: Aladdin Books, London: Collier Macmillan, 1986, c1959
^ Ivie, Larry, "Heroes Ivie League "comic book # 14 (July 2001), pp. 64-68
^ Stargas, Steve and David J. Spurlock, Wally's World (Vanguard Productions, 2007), p. 177. ISBN 1-887591-80-X
^ By Stan Lee on the letters page, Fantastic Four # 42 (September 1965)
Wood paint ^ The Avengers # 20-22 and "Iron Man" feature in Tales of Suspense # 71, on both artist Don Heck, and the "Human Torch" feature in Strange Tales # 134, more than Powell in 1965, Captain America # 127, more than Gene Colan in 1970, Kull the Conqueror # 1 on Ross Andru, and "Red Wolf", in Marvel Spotlight # 1 on Syd Shores in 1971, and The Cat # 1 on Marie Severin, in 1972. He closed the covers Kirby Avengers # 20-21 and X-Men # 14. The Grand Comics Database (see "References" below), also cited "The additional inks … uncredited "on Kirby layouts and pencils by George Tuska and ink work of" Captain America "feature in Tales of Suspense # 71.
^ The Project File realistic: Realism # 74 (May 1967): "The Disneyland Memorial Orgy," Paul Krassner, and Wally Wood, pp. 12-13, with the credits listed on file in May 1967 Index
^ Comic Book Artist # 14, p. 20
^ Ro, Ronin. Tales to Astonish: Jack Kirby, Stan Lee and the American Revolution Comic Book (Bloomsbury, 2004)
^ ComicBookDb: Wonder Woman # 269. Accessed April 2, 2008
^ Wally Wood, "The Misfits InternationalHero.co.uk"
JoeGuide.com ^: "Larry Hama: Writer and artist," undated. Original link dead as at least February 4, 2010. Web.Archive.com link.
Vive ^ CE! CE 1972 Fan-Addict Convention Book (privately published)
References
Wallace Wally Wood and Wood at the Grand Comics Database
Gilbert, Michael T. "Control Total: A Brief Biography of Wally Wood ", Alter Ego vol. 3, No. 8 (Spring 2001). WebCitation file.
Wood, Wally. Marvel Comics Art of Wally Wood. New York: Thumbtack Books, 1982, hardcover. ISBN 0-942480-02-3
References
The Wally Wood Letters and photo album. WebCitation file.
Stiles, Steve Wallace Wood: The Tragedy of an SF Cartoonist Master ", SteveStiles.com, nd WebCitation file.
"Comic Book Trading Cards Creators # 3: Wally Wood IsThisTomorrow.com ", Nd
Wally Wood (1927 – 1981) Archives of American Art
"Wood", BPIB.com (fan site) nd
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Contributors to Mad
"The Usual Gang of Idiots"
Editors
Jerry DeFuccio Al Feldstein John Ficarra Meglin Nick Harvey Kurtzman
Writers
Dick Anthony Barbieri DeBartolo Desmond Devlin Stan Jacobs Stan Freberg Michael Hart Frank Gallagher Tom Koch Arnie Kogen Ernie Kovacs Jay Lynch Barry Liebmann Larry Silverstone Lou Siegel Mike Snider
Recorder Artists
Sergio Aragon Duck Dave Berg John Caldwell Edwing Al Jaffee Don Martin Peter Paul Porges Prohida Antonio
Artists
Tom Clarke Bob bunk Jack Davis Paul Coker Mort Drucker Will Elder Tom Fowler Shary Flenniken Drew Friedman Russ Heath Bernard Krigstein Peter Kuper Carol Lay Hermann Mejia Norman Mingo Joe Orlando Jack Rickard Tom Richmond John Severin Angelo Torres Rick Sam Viviano Tulkas James Warhola Monte Wolverton Basil Wolverton Wood Bill Wray Wally George Woodbridge
Photographers
Irving Schild
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