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Book

The life and legend of Wallace Wood. Volume 1

Call Number

  • 741.569 W8811L [multiple volumes] (CEN)

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Edition

First Fantagraphics Books edition.

Publication Information

Seattle, WA : Fantagraphics Books, 2017.

Physical Description

255 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm

Summary

This biography is an incisive look at the life and career of one of the greatest and most mythic comic book creators the maddest artist of Mad magazine, the man behind Marvel's Daredevil, and self-publishing pioneer of Witzend Wallace Wood.

Contents

  • Introduction / Introduction / Wood paneling / Against the grain / From here to nudity / Wood's first comics job / Avon calling / A thousand rays in your belly / Into the woods / The best damn artist in the business / Geronimo! / When better drawrings are drawrn
  • Traveling through the galaxys / Waking up from the American Dream / Mad man / Good Humor Man / Quot 'n' unquotr / Chocolate-covered Wood / Wood bounces / Still crazy cards after all these years / Our Gypsy camp / West 74th Street / When in doubt, black it out / Old ink, new ink / The man without peer / A leprechaun, a giant

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