Thursday, February 01, 2007
Wallace Wood: Against the Grain, part 30
In 1954, when Wood saw Them and lampooned it as “Them There Those” for EC’s Panic (#7), the furniture of their West 74th Street apartment began to vanish beneath layers and layers of celluloid sheets for EC’s 3-D books, as Wood described in 1972: “Besides drawing it, you had the technical problem of figuring how these things were going to overlap. The safest way to do that was to draw every figure complete, even the ones that were behind the other figures. Then you had to opaque them like cels, paint every figure white behind. So my whole apartment—the floors, the sofa, the chairs, everything — was covered. And this stuff didn’t dry! It was a job.”
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