Like Marcel Duchamp's Green Box (no, seriously), it's a portable device for the transmission of artwork. What you get to spend time with is an artist fully immersed in his craft.Ģ) One of the crucial things about printing these in full color, as documents, is that you see the range in tones Wood was working in. Wally Wood’s EC Stories: Artist's Edition contains a choice selection of his best work for EC's science fiction, adventure and crime comics, as well as a cover gallery, all drawn in the early-1950s while Wood was still in his twenties.ġ) The first time I opened it I thought: This is like a museum in a book. It's gone into a second printing which'll be out in late May (pre-order it here). It's like the first Little Nemo book that Pete Maresca produced: An entirely new way to look at a comic art great it's also one of the finest books of drawings I've ever seen. It is easily one of the best books of comic art ever produced. The newest edition, and the only one I've laid my hands on ( TCJ covered the Walt Simonson edition here, and there is also John Romita and Dave Stevens volumes) is by Wally Wood.
Features A Few Notes on Wally Wood’s EC Stories Artist’s Editionįor a little while now IDW has been publishing a series of books consisting of actual-size color reproductions of original comic book art.
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