The Woodwork Catalog

Check out Ferran Delgado's wonderful art blog (which you should be doing anyway) for some photos of the gorgeous catalog to the current WOODWORK Exhibit in Spain.

http://ferrandelgado.blogspot.com/2010/09/fotos-del-catalogo-de-la-exposicion.html

Judy Canova

Here's the first story from the final (Don't let that 'Next issue' plug fool you) issue f JUDY CANOVA in 1950. GCD calls it pure Wood but I'd go with Joe Orlando in there somewhere on either pencils or inks as his signature appears on the cover. Interesting to note the obvious Al Capp influence in the art, presumably due to the fact that Judy was a hillbilly character.

Judy Canova became popular on radio in her hillbilly persona nearly two decades before her comic book series and continued to appear as a character actress/comedienne right up until close to her death in 1983. She lived long enough to see her tall, gorgeous daughter Diana become a popular TV star in the seventies on shows such as SOAP. If Diana had been blonde, she would have looked exactly like a typical Wood woman!

Stuporman

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The Weirdlings by Nick Cuti

Here is one of several WEIRDLINGS pages former Woodworker Nick Cuti did in an approximation of his MOONCHILD style for Charlton's GHOSTLY TALES in the 1970's. While Wood himself did little work for Charlton, a number of his former sidekicks including Cuti, Paul Kirchner and especially Wayne Howard can be found in that low-rent company's many spooky comics of the period. Frequent Wood collaborator Steve Ditko was a regular there. also, of course.

The Exhibit!

Over at this Jack Kirby blog, there are some great new photographs and images from the just opened Wallace Wood Exhibit in Spain! Is there anyone out there who might be able to supply the HOORAY FOR WALLY WOOD blog with a copy of the exhibit book? Please email me at booksteve@aol.com if you can.

http://jack-kirby.over-blog.com/

Sky Masters by Neal Adams

Here we have Neal Adams at age 16 giving his take on Jack Kirby and Wally Wood's SKY MASTERS OF THE SPACE FORCE. I'm not certain if this was Neal copying an existing Sunday page or simply making one up out of whole cloth but it's interesting to see his solo take on what many consider to be one of Wood's best collaborations ever! many years later, Adams would be called in to help Woody on a CANNON deadline.

My World

Thanks to our new pal Loston for scans (not his) of the original art to Woody's seminal EC strip, MY WORLD. Like Barry Manilow, known for his "I Write the Songs" which was actually written by Beach Boy Bruce Johnston, MY WORLD was actually written not by Wood but by Al Feldstein. Sums up Wallace Wood pretty well, though.