Comments on: Panel Madness! Day Nine: Containing Multitudes

By: Destroy All Comics!!! - Here Endeth The Lesson

Destroy All Comics!!! - Here Endeth The Lesson — Wed, 06 May 2009 06:25:24 +0000

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Destroy All Comics!!! - Here Endeth The Lesson « Strange Ink — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 10:50:50 +0000

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By: Richard J. Marcej

Richard J. Marcej — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 14:11:17 +0000

Wally Wood was a master cartoonist.

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Mon, 23 Feb 2009 08:17:32 +0000

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By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 03:02:13 +0000

I remember hearing Eisner comment on how Wood's talent was ahead of its time, and would have flourished during the growth of the independent comic stores. He said Wood was always doodling gnomes. Imagine something like Bone drawn by Wally Wood.

I also remember Al Williamson describing Wood with very indulgent appetites, somehow not being able to stop salting his food. That actually makes sense, when you consider the delight of his shapes and contours. Ron Goulart also mentioned how his young son was a fan, and they encountered Wood (presumably at a con or at a publisher) traveling drunk in a stairwell.

By: MarkAndrew

MarkAndrew — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 01:30:57 +0000

Or not, sine I can't figure out how to edit comments anymore. But Mike's absolutely right.

By: MarkAndrew

MarkAndrew — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 01:18:21 +0000

onion - Very nice. That was a tough one, unless you hit the link. T - Ha! Good point. I'm not sure I would've ID'd the artist with the first panel, but by the second there's no mistaking. Daniel - Shoot, sorry. I thought I caught that. Anyway, it's fixed now. ' Mike - Shoot, yeah, you're absolutely right. I'll edit my comment.

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 01:03:25 +0000

Wood was in high school most of WWII, and then signed up himself in its last year. Eisner hired Wood after they finished their service.

By: Daniel Best

Daniel Best — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 00:54:08 +0000

You can find the Gibbons panel and my write up here: http://ohdannyboy.blogspot.com/2009/02/panel-madness-on-seventh-day.html Guess the link slipped by MarkAndrew.

With the Superman in Kent's glasses, I believe that's from a story that contained a lot of deliberate mistakes that DC once printed. It was full of things like Clark Kent walking into the Daily Planet wearing his cape, people referring to him as Kal-El whilst dressed as Kent and other such mistakes.

By: onion3000

onion3000 — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 21:11:08 +0000

Once upon a time, DC would occasionally produce a competition in their comics. For example, they had a whole story where they used the letters 'D' or 'C' only once. The Superman with glasses/Lana selling ice-cream panel looks like it might be a challenge to 'spot all the deliberate mistakes'.

By: DubipR

DubipR — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 21:04:15 +0000

Wait....Panel 1..... Steranko?

By: onion3000

onion3000 — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 21:03:31 +0000

1. Steranko.

By: T.

T. — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 20:47:19 +0000

I guessed Wally Wood soon as I saw it. No one draws women so beautifully and distinctly except for maybe John Romita Sr. One of my all-time dream pics would have been to see a Wally Wood inkred by John Romita.

By: Kirayoshi

Kirayoshi — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 20:46:09 +0000

The Superman Panel("Burn!") was from Superman Annual #8, "For The Man Who Has Everything", by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons(who also did this other book, uh, something about watching something...er...it'll come to me). Damn good story. DC has a trade out collecting Moore's DCU work, including "For The Man...", "The Killing Joke", "Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow", "Mogo Doesn't Socalize" and a host of other cool stuff. Check it out.

By: MarkAndrew

MarkAndrew — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 19:32:52 +0000

DubipR you're 6 for 8. # 1 is a paper-back book cover, not a comic panel. It IS by a noted comic artist though, certainly someone you've heard of. (Assuming you can name the ten-or-so most famous silver and bronze age comic artists.) And the image was swiped from Greg Hatcher's column. (Which is the only reason I knew it.)

# 6 Is from a recent issue of Punisher MAX. I didn't even recognize this guy's name.

I wouldn't have got # 4 either, (which is Rubber Blanket.) After reading MadkinBeard, though, I'm pretty sure I need to greater-familiarize myself.

P. Craig Russell's a good guess. (I actually almost went with an image from Fairy Tales of Oscar WIlde when I was deciding on my panel.) He's cited Wood as a major influence, and did a whole story as a homage back when he was working for Epic.

http://frpeneaud.free.fr/artists/Russell/RussellOpus01.html

I totally see Tim Sale, too, mostly because of the way the panel was re-colored. I wouldn't be surprised if there was some Wally influence there, as well. (I have a 60 page Comics Journal interview with Sale that I haven't got around to reading. Maybe now's the time?)

Eisner's pretty great guess, 'specially since W. W. actually drew The Spirit for a while when Eisner was in the army during WWII.

I always have trouble recognizing Wood myself. Of all the really-famous-classic comic artist types, he seems to have the least distinctive and most flexible style.

The Superman panel? I just grabbed it off Google Image search, and now I can't find the original context. I dun no what-the-hey is going on.

Plok - Yeah! There is a kind of circular thing movement to the whole thing, with a big nothing-too-interesting HERE spot in the middle. I'm glad it worked well - Took me f-o-r-e-v-e-r to choose a panel.

By: DubipR

DubipR — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 18:22:43 +0000

Good article I think I got the panel aritists down.
1. P Craig Russell (maybe Killraven)
2. Sean Phillips (Criminal)
3. Kirby (Challengers of the Unknown)
4. poss. David Mazzucchelli (either Rubber Blanket or City of Glass)
5. Paul Pope (Batman 100)
6. Ton y Salmons or JP Leon?
7. Dave Gibbons (For the Man Who Has Everything)
8. Steve Rude (Nexus... the new mini perhaps?)

By: Sijo

Sijo — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 16:56:51 +0000

Speaking of spotting story-related details in a panel, the Superman one has Supes wearing Clark Kent's glasses! (either that or his eyes are REALLY bugging out from seeing Lana doing actual WORK! ) Oh, and his chest insignia is BACKWARDS. All of this tells me that this a wackier-than-usual Silver Age Superman story, either involving Mr. Mxyzptlk, or a parallel universe. Which is it?

By: hdo

hdo — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 16:44:00 +0000

Yeah, I thought Eisner at first - other than that I thought it was EC. Cool article.

By: salamurai

salamurai — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 16:17:38 +0000

I thought this was drawn by Tim Sale at first.

By: Tom Fitzpatrick

Tom Fitzpatrick — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 13:46:17 +0000

That first panel, if you hadn't mentioned the artist being Wally Wood, I might have guessed Will Eisner.

However, I do recognize that last panel, by Rude the Dude. This is either in the first 5 issues of the on-going series (or the first 3-issue mini-series).