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Friday, November 20, 2009
Wood Chips 13: 1950s
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Three from the 1950s: Cover of the Fordham humor magazine, a drawing on Craftint paper (possibly late 1940s) and a 1959 cover for The Cartoonist. Note the party guests not only include cartoonists and cartoon characters but also a strange hybrid of cartoonists who have morphed into their own characters. Click on "wood chips" label at bottom to see the previous 12 posts in this series.
Three from the 1950s: Cover of the Fordham humor magazine, a drawing on Craftint paper (possibly late 1940s) and a 1959 cover for The Cartoonist. Note the party guests not only include cartoonists and cartoon characters but also a strange hybrid of cartoonists who have morphed into their own characters. Click on "wood chips" label at bottom to see the previous 12 posts in this series.
National Cartoonists Society meeting on cover of The Cartoonist (1959)
Bill Holman (Smokey Stover), Ernie Bushmiller (Nancy) and Gus Edson (The Gumps) at 1950 National Cartoonists Society meeting.
Here's what Gus Edson was doing 11 years earlier (The Gumps, June 25, 1939).
Labels: craftint, ncs, wood, wood chips
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Sunday, May 24, 2009
Wood Chips 11
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In 1961, Wood drew this cover for the National Cartoonists Society's Annual Report. Identifying these characters can be challenging. Clockwise from top left: Swee'Pea, Henry, Herby, Denny Dimwit, Dagwood, Pogo, Nancy, Charlie Brown, Eugene the Jeep, Dick Tracy, Miss Peach, Smokey Stover, Mutt and Jeff, the Little King, Dennis the Menace, Little Iodine, Jiggs, Daddy Warbucks, Mary Worth, Little Orphan Annie, Betty Cooper, Pete the Tramp, Prince Valiant, Mammy Yokum. Can anyone identify the faces I skipped over?
In 1961, Wood drew this cover for the National Cartoonists Society's Annual Report. Identifying these characters can be challenging. Clockwise from top left: Swee'Pea, Henry, Herby, Denny Dimwit, Dagwood, Pogo, Nancy, Charlie Brown, Eugene the Jeep, Dick Tracy, Miss Peach, Smokey Stover, Mutt and Jeff, the Little King, Dennis the Menace, Little Iodine, Jiggs, Daddy Warbucks, Mary Worth, Little Orphan Annie, Betty Cooper, Pete the Tramp, Prince Valiant, Mammy Yokum. Can anyone identify the faces I skipped over?
Below is Wood's capsule autobiography for the National Cartoonists Society. He grouped goopy characters together for goofiness galore and then combined them with one of his pages from Mad. Notice that he lettered his name as "Wallace Wood,'' not "Wally Wood". As he stated on several occasions, he did not like the name "Wally".
Labels: comic strips, mad, national cartoonists society, ncs, wood, wood chips
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