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Wallace Allan Wood(June 17, 1927 – November 2, 1981)[1]was an American comic book writer, artist and independent publisher, widely known for his work on EC Comics's titles such as Weird Science, Weird Fantasy, and MAD Magazinefrom its inception in 1952 until 1964, as well as for T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents, and work for Warren Publishing's Creepy.
Wood's life story was chronicled by Steve Starger and J. David Spurlock in 'Wally's World' (Vanguard, 2006). Former co-worker Bhob Stewart has been browsing through the Wood archives since the 1990s, and has published regular articles about him in The Comics Journal.
I was also invited by Comic-Con to write the official Wood bio in this year's Souvenir Book. Much of the details of Wood's life related in the conversation above, were first revealed in my Eisner acknowledged Wood biography, WALLY's WORLD.
May 6, 2024 · Wally Wood was a genius who used mass production, or at least tried to do it. (His attempts at publishing tell me his methods didn't scale, no matter how hard he worked to create bulletproof processes).
Oct 1, 2015 · Wallace "Wally" Wood, or Woody, as he preferred to be called, is one of those comics creators who is spoken of in a reverent way by other creators -- indeed, he's often seen as one of the greatest comics artists of all time.
Sep 21, 2019 · I first met Wally Wood in 1966 when I was a sixteen year old runaway, on the lam from a juvenile detention facility in New York. Two of my friends from the High School of Art and Design, where I had attended intermittently, were Larry Hama and JD Smith.
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Wallace Wood was born June 17, 1927 in Menahga, Minnesota. His only art training came from short periods of study at the Minneapolis School of Art and later, Burne Hogarth's Cartoonists and Illustrators School.
