The Manhunters

Here from Joe Bloke is the color version of THE MANHUNTERS as published in Warren's COMIX INTERNATIONAL. Stewart's Index indicates that Wood did NOT like the rewrite Bill DuBay gave it but it's credited to Gerry Boudreau. That said, the art (with Paul Kirchner) is quite lovely!

http://grantbridgestreet.blogspot.com/2009/05/manhunters-by-gerry-boudreau-and-wally.html

Sci-Fi Illustration

More wonderful flora and fauna from a late fifties sci-fi short story. This has more of an ECish feel than much of his straight sci-fi work.

Concord

From the Wood Portfolio we mentioned the other day, here's the exquisite CONCORD piece originally done circa 1962-63.

Identification Help Needed

Reader Lee sent along some rare Woodwork but neither he nor I can identify them. I'm betting that some of you readers can! Here's what Lee says:

"They were allegedly done for an unsold syndicated newspaper feature, but I've never seen any reference to such a project. Obviously from the early 60's -- but not from Mad magazine nor, as far as I can tell, Topps. There are 21 of them, on board, around 9x11, in ink and blue pencil."

Wood Tree

Found on the Net, here's a Wood illustration from a sci-fi mag story. The thing I like most about this, though, is the tree. In my opinion, Wood was second only to POGO's Walt Kelly in his tree art. Kelly traditionally had one highly delineated tree in every Sunday strip title panel. This reminds me of one of Kelly's Sunday trees.

Portfolio

Here's another Wood portfolio, this one featuring art prints of four historical pieces often said to be amongst the artist's best work.

Wood at His Drawing Board

Nearly every self-portrait one sees of Wallace Wood shows him at work. In a lot of ways, I think he defined himself by his work. Here's a late-period photograph that looks just like many of those illustrations. This is from the back cover of a book on Wood if I remember correctly but I can't find it at the moment.