Wallace wood biography book

Adding product to your cart. Who was Wallace Wood? The maddest artist of Mad magazine? The man behind Marvel's Daredevil?

Wallace wood biography book: A dramatic illustrated biography of legendary

His World is an incisive look back at the life and career of one of the greatest and most mythic figures of cartooning. Edited over the course of thirty years by former Wood assistant Bhob Stewart, His World is a biographical portrait, generously illustrated with Wood's gorgeous art as well as little-seen personal photos and childhood ephemera.

Also: remembrances by Wood's friends, colleagues, assistants, and loved ones. This collective biographical and critical portrait explores the humorous spirit, dark detours, and psychological twists of a gifted maverick in American pop culture. Rather than a conventional coffee-table retelling of the artist's life and career, editors Bhob Stewart and J.

Michael Catron have by structuring the book as a series of essays by eminent comics scholars and talents wisely chosen to spotlight a number of different kinds of tributes to the artist It's difficult to imagine a more respectful package.