Carefully compiled over more than three decades by Wood assistant Bhob Stewart, The Life and Legend of Wallace Wood Volume 2 is the sequel to The Life and Legend of Wallace Wood Volume 1 (you can read my review here). Wallace Wood was a remarkable and legendary comics creator. A special tribute gallery includes artwork by Robert Crumb, Dan Clowes, Michael T. Gilbert, Al Feldstein, Dave Sim, Michael Cho, Drew Friedman, and Marie Severin. The Life and Legend of Wallace Wood, Volume 2 features full-color illustrations and artwork on practically every page. If you’re a Wally Wood fan, this book is a must-buy. If you love comic artwork, you should definitely take a look at this wonderful volume! Highly recommended! GRADE: A
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Introduction/Ed Piskor 7
From the Woodwork Out/Clark Diamond 9
Making “My World”/Ben Saunders 17
The Bubblegum Years/Les Brown 25
A Case History of the Disneyland Memorial Orgy Poster/Paul Krassner 37
Blowing Down This Dusty Road/Flo Steinberg 45
Wood Workers/Bhob Stewart & Mike Catron 47
Strange Magic/Tom Sutton 51
About Woody/Trina Robbins 55
Wood at His witzend/Rick Spanier 59
Guitars and Flying Tigers/Larry Hama 67
The Overseas Weekly Discovery/Roger Hill 71
Wood Engravings/Paul Levitz 79
Ghost Story/A.L. Sirois 85
Rapping on Wood/Basford, Cuti, Kirshner, Pearson, Stewart 93
Trajectories/Paul Kishner 125
Second-Story Man/Bill Pearson 137
Wood Screws/Paul Kirshner 151
The Third Man/John Workman 155
The One That Got Away/Mike Moore & Bill Spicer 167
The Woody Papers/Richard Bassford 171
Wood Posts/Wallace Wood 183
The Wizard of Odkin/Feshid Barucha 195
In France/Wallace Wood 199
Cover Story/Roger Hill 207
The Big Blue Pencil/Wallace Wood 213
Self Portrait/Wallace Wood 217
Portrait Gallery/233
Final Curtain/Mike Catron 237
There Are Good Guys and Bad Guys/Bhob Stewart 243
Contributors 263
Selected Bibliography 270
Acknowledgments 271
Hooray for Wally Wood!/Bhob Stewart 272
Interesting, though not on my buy list.
OT: Congratulations on Buffalo’s rout of 4th seed Arizona last night. The team looked great. Hopefully they can also beat Kentucky!
Rick, today’s headline on the BUFFALO NEWS Sport Page was: BUFFALO BULLS CRUISE TO A BEAT-DOWN IN BOISE! The Bulls were 9-point underdogs.
I love Wally Wood’s work and I’d buy this if I didn’t have more junk than the Collyer brothers on hand already.
Bob, there’s always room for One More Good Book!
I miss Bhob Stewart even more than I do Wallace Wood. Thanks for the pointer!
Todd, both volumes of THE LIFE AND LEGEND OF WALLACE WOOD are wonderful books! Highly recommended!