Saturday, April 9, 2011

Comic Strip Christmas

Ron Sutton comes through again with an amazing scan of this MAD original art. Embiggen for hours of fun!

3 comments:

  1. This piece is fantastic. All the comic strip characters are completely recognizable and almost all are on-model. This really showcases Wood's diversity as an artist. I also like the craftint tonal work. A very nice double spread.

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  2. The real-life Andy Gump was Mississippi's Andy Wheat who had his lower jaw removed because of an infection. Sidney Smith met Wheat through his brother, a dentist, as seen in these Life photos.

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  3. Such a great image. I remember seeing that image as a kid in some MAD reprint (MAD about comics or some such...

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