The Life and Legend of Wallace Wood

Volume 2 of the Eisner Award-nominated series The Life and Legend of Wallace Wood completes this revealing, intimate portrait of the brilliant but troubled maverick comics creator (EC Comics, Mad, Daredevil, T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents, witzend, The Justice Society of America, The Wizard King). Featuring the vivid personal recollections of the friends, colleagues, and assistants who knew him best and a cornucopia of gorgeous artwork and photos.

About the author

Wallace Allan Wood (1927-1981) is widely considered to be America's greatest science fiction cartoonist. But Wood could -- and did -- do it all: humor (a founding cartoonist of Mad), crime, superheroes, romance, war. He was also a pioneering alternative/underground cartoonist/publisher with his magazine witzend. Among many other honors, he was inducted into the Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame in 1992.

Product details

• Authors: Bill Pearson, J. Michael Catron, Catron J. Michael, Flo Steinberg, Larry Hama, Paul Krassner, Paul Levitz, Bhob Stewart, Stewart Bhob, Tom Sutton, Trina Robbins, Wallace Wood, Wallace/ Catron Wood, Wood Wallace
• Assisted by: Bhob Stewart (Editor), J. Michael Catron (Editor), J. Michael Catron (Editor), Bhob Stewart (Editor)
• Publisher: Fantagraphics
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 16
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9781683960683
• ISBN: 978-1-68396-068-3
• No. of pages: 232
• Dimensions: 260 mm x 313 mm x 22 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Comic, cartoon, humour, satire > Comic; Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Biography: general, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, DESIGN / Graphic Arts / Illustration, COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / General, PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Architectural & Industrial, ART / History / General, Individual architects & architectural firms, ARCHITECTURE / Individual Architects & Firms / General, ART / Individual Artists / Essays, Graphic Novels, PHOTOGRAPHY / Individual Photographers / Essays, DESIGN / Essays, History of art / art & design styles, History of Art, Individual photographers, Literary essays, Individual artists, art monographs, Comic book & cartoon art, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Comic book and cartoon artwork, Individual architects and architectural firms, Graphic novel / Comic book / Manga: styles / traditions, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form