Five Images That Prove Wally Wood’s Greatness


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Saturday, April 18, 2009


Oh, just for fun, or maybe to get some mileage out of my distracting obsession with Wally Wood. Pretty much what the title says it is: A tiny sampling of why Wood is such a compelling artist.

He understood physical grace (and he was a great costume designer).


He could organize space in a way that made it seem infinite and STILL teeming with “stuff”.


His hyper-detailed, baroque inking style gave aliens and technology a solid, complex dimensionality.


He was funny.


In his later years he figured a wonderfully airy sense of space — his figures no longer stiff or contorted, and his pen line (or assistant’s line) smooth and minimal.

That’s it.

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9 Responses to “Five Images That Prove Wally Wood’s Greatness”
  1. Inkstuds says:

    There is a guy in Vancouver, who has an original Wood from I think 51 or 52 and its a really amazing scratch board. If you ever come to Vancouver you have to see it. It is quite the piece of beauty.

  2. Eric Reynolds says:

    Great post.

  3. Frank Santoro says:

    damn. that was a good one

  4. Frank Santoro says:

    also, it’s interesting to note that the Daredevil cover was edited. I found out that originally one of the monsters on the rooftop was carrying away some damsel – like pulling her off the roof, on to the roof, in the corner – and Marvel 86’d it.

  5. the ghost of jermaine stewart says:

    aren’t those the Ani-men who the x-men fight in the issue where Thunderbird dies? I hadn’t realized that they had also gone up against daredevil.

  6. Sean Howe says:

    And you did it without any spacemen!

  7. nsatkinson says:

    There's a guy on Comic Art Fans with a rough of a THUNDER Agents page. Thought you'd be interested:
    http://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryPiece.asp?Piece=503669&GSub=5444

  8. Nicholas says:

    I’m gagging a little. Inspiring stuff!

  9. al gordon says:

    Thanx for the great images and article.

    I always thought that the Daredevil cover mighta had a smidgen of Kirby in it… like he possibly did a thumbnail for it. Or maybe Wally was channeling Jack… certainly at that period Stan was telling everyone to draw like Kirby. Either way it’s an awesome Drawing!

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