Wednesday, February 14, 2007
Wallace Wood: Against the Grain, part 32
One of the things Wood wanted to do was expedite the work by employing Tatjana as a penciler, but there was some objection to this at EC. “I started penciling backgrounds,” she said. “I remember one story in particular, ‘Carl Akeley’ in a Kurtzman book (Two-Fisted Tales 41). I worked from swipe. I can’t draw, but I have a very good eye, so I can copy things and even change them. I penciled quite a few of those elephants and other animals. Wallace mentioned this to Harvey Kurtzman after the story came out, and Harvey was not pleased that he didn’t do it by himself. Then, little by little, aside from ruling lines in ink, I got very good control with my brush in freehand. So I helped in that respect.”
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