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Fantagraphics publishes Wally Wood’s EC comics, some of them for the very first time
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- Fantagraphics publishes The Spawn Of Venus And Other Stories by Wally Wood, with some works being printed for the first time.
- The collection includes “My World” and adaptations of Ray Bradbury stories and showcases Wood’s science fiction art.
- The volume contains restored and completed comics, including a discarded page from “You, Rocket” by Al Feldstein.
- The influential career of Wally Wood is highlighted, from EC Comics to “Daredevil” with Stan Lee and iconic satirical works.
Oni Press is not the only one publishing EC Comics. Next April, Fantagraphics will publish Wally Wood‘S The Brood of Venus and Other StoriesPart of The Fantagraphics EC Comics Artist Library with Al Feldstein, Ray Bradbury, Grant Geissman, Thommy Burns And Jon Gotthold.
The Brood of Venus was written and drawn for a 3D comic that was cancelled before printing and was restored in the 2D version. The collection also includes the famous My world History of EC Comics, which changed the comic publishing industry, as well as his trilogy of Ray Bradbury Adjustments, I’m staying home, it’s going to rain gently… and Mars is the sky!as well as He walked among usa “What if…?” version of Bradbury’s The man from The Illustrated Man.
The volume contains one of 26 stories by Wally Woodmost frequently written by Al Feldstein. In 1955, the Comics Code rejected the second page of You, rocket and forced EC Comics to completely rewrite and redraw it. When the original art for this rejected page was rediscovered, one panel was missing. Al Feldstein wrote a new panel to complete the story once again, but died before it could be published, but is included in its entirety for the first time in this volume. The book includes commentaries on all the stories by EC experts Thomas Burns, Grant GeissmanAnd Jon Gothold.
Born in 1927, Wallace Wood attended the Hogarth School of Art, then the Cartoonists and Illustrators School before working for Will Eisner as a Spirit background artist, then with George Wunder on Terry and the Pirates. Before working for Fox Comics on productions such as My experience, my secret life, my love story And My True Love: Exciting Confession Stories, before his most famous work for EC Comics. He persuaded publisher William Gaines to start a line of science fiction comics, and drew and inked several dozen EC science fiction stories, many of which are reprinted in the new volume.
He is also best known for his collaboration with Stan Lee on Daredevil, for which he designed the red costume, as well as for the creation of Stilt-Man. He was also famous as the anonymous artist of the satirical Disneyland Memorial Orgy poster as well as the comic artist guideline Panels That Always Work, which he created for himself and then made famous by Larry Hamas, who used it to train other comic artists. Wally Wood, suffering from health problems, a dwindling career and regretting his life choices, committed suicide with a gun in 1981. Fantagraphics Books published The life and legend of Wallace Wood as a set of two bound books.
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