Jack Kirby Original Art

Wally Wood
Biography
Biography
Wally Wood was born June 17, 1927, and began reading comics and drawing at an early age. He was strongly influenced by the styles of the art of Alex Raymond's Flash Gordon, Milton Caniff Terry and the Pirates, Hal Foster's Prince Valiant, Will Eisner's spirit and especially Tubbs Roy Crane wash. Recalling his childhood, Wood said that his dream at the age of six years, finding a magic pencil that could pull something, predicts its future as an artist.
Old Wood Studio Bhob Stewart writer-artist anthology biography in 2003. cover art in wood, from 1978.
Wood's mother was his first editor, in a sense, the collection of his early drawings and binding on her sewing machine in the books. These early works and mostly undated still exist today because of his actions and offers an overview of his progression as a young artist.
Wood graduated from high school in 1944, signed with the United States Merchant Marine to the end of World War II and joined the U.S. Army Parachute Airborne 11 in 1946. It went from training at Fort Benning, Georgia, occupation of Japan, where he was assigned to the island of Hokkaid. Arriving in New York with his brother Glenn, and his mother, after its release in July 1948, Wood has found a job as a busboy Bickford. During his free time he wore his thick portfolio of drawings all over downtown Manhattan, visiting all the editors he could find. He briefly attended the School of Art Hogarth (later changed to the designers and illustrators school), but dropped out after one semester.
In October, after being rejected by all the companies he visited, wooden boy met the artist John Severin in the waiting room of a small publisher. After the two shared their experiences of trying to find work, Severin invited to visit his wood shop, the Charles William Harvey Studio, where the timber met Charlie Stern, Harvey Kurtzman (who worked for the time / Marvel) and Will Elder . At this workshop learned that Will Eisner Wood was looking for an artist of substance Spirit. He immediately visited Eisner and was hired on the spot.
During the next year, the wood also became assistant to George Wunder, who took over the Milton Caniff Terry and the band of pirates. Wood spoke of his "first job of my own" as chief ob-stacle, a continuous series of bands for a political newsletter in 1949. He entered the field of comics by letters, as he recalled in 1981: "The first professional job was lettering for the comic novel Fox 1948. That lasted about a year. I also started to make backgrounds and inking. Most orders were the novel. To fill the pages, it was $ 5 per page ... Twice a week I would like to ink ten pages a day. "
representing artists Renaldo Epworth Wood helped land her first tasks of the comics, making it difficult to know if this connection led to wooden letters or his debut comic-art, the story of ten pages "Off The Board Woman [sic] in the Fox Comics Western Women Outlaws # 4 (dated January 1949, sales on the end of 1948). Wood's next art-known comic strip does not appear until Fox's My Confession No. 7 (August 1949), when he began working almost without interruption of My similar experience, My Secret Life, My Love Story and My True Love: Stories suspense Confession. His first signed work is considered in my confession # 8 (October 1949), with the name "Woody" half-hidden on a theater marquee. He penciled and inked two stories in this issue: "I was not wanted" (nine pages) and "My reputation tarnished" (ten pages).
Wood started to pencil-EC cooperation and co-anchor with Harry Harrison's story "Too Busy For Love" (Modern Love # 5), and fully sketched the history of lead, "I was just Playtime Cowgirl "in the novels Seat # 11 (April 1950), signed by Harrison.
1950
Sky Masters comic strip by Jack Kirby (pencils) and Wood (inks)
Working from a studio in Manhattan at West 64th Street.