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Friday, January 21, 2011
Wood Chips 27: Voice of Wally Wood
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Here is Matthew Hawes' 2006 video of The Voices of Marvel (1965). Scripting and delivery fell short, but Hawes gave it new life in a slick video production with a good selection of images nicely timed.
To read the entire "Flight into Fear" story (from Tower of Shadows #5), go to Pete Doree's Bronze Age. The splash was reworked for the cover of The Marvel Art of Wally Wood (Thumbtack Books, 1982), where it seems to lose some of its drama without the barred window and the monster mask. The original splash hinted that Wood was imprisoned at his drawing table.
"Of Swords and Sorcery" was published in Tower of Shadows #7 (September 1970). In a 1971 letter to me, Wood called this story "the Big One" and added, "I personally thought a little epic I did called "Of Swords and Sorcery" for Marvel was the best thing I've done in years." Trolkin, who "made the mistake of laughing at a wizard," is one of Wood's more imaginative character creations, so it's surprising he was given little dialogue. To read the entire story, go to Groovy Kind.
Here is Matthew Hawes' 2006 video of The Voices of Marvel (1965). Scripting and delivery fell short, but Hawes gave it new life in a slick video production with a good selection of images nicely timed.
To read the entire "Flight into Fear" story (from Tower of Shadows #5), go to Pete Doree's Bronze Age. The splash was reworked for the cover of The Marvel Art of Wally Wood (Thumbtack Books, 1982), where it seems to lose some of its drama without the barred window and the monster mask. The original splash hinted that Wood was imprisoned at his drawing table.
"Of Swords and Sorcery" was published in Tower of Shadows #7 (September 1970). In a 1971 letter to me, Wood called this story "the Big One" and added, "I personally thought a little epic I did called "Of Swords and Sorcery" for Marvel was the best thing I've done in years." Trolkin, who "made the mistake of laughing at a wizard," is one of Wood's more imaginative character creations, so it's surprising he was given little dialogue. To read the entire story, go to Groovy Kind.
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Thursday, December 24, 2009
Wood Chips 15: Bucky's Christmas Caper
Wally Wood's Bucky's Christmas Caper is becoming a Christmas blog tradition -- like It's a Wonderful Life and A Christmas Story on television. See Steve Thompson, Mr. Door Tree and Pete Doree.
Short-run Christmas strips were once popular with the syndicates. Notice the dates on the strips, and you can see that this ran in 1967 from December 5 to December 23. As Woody explained it to me, NEA promised he could continue to do these characters in a regular Bucky Ruckus comic strip -- on one condition. If the Christmas strip had a favorable reaction and was picked up by hundreds of newspapers, then it would be syndicated as a permanent feature. However, to gain that many papers in only three weeks was NEA's Catch 22. They knew and Wood knew that such was a feat was impossible.
However, as Eric Idle puts it, always look at the bright side of life. The line quality is fine because the strip exists in slick proof sheets. And there are more than 50 panels, so one day this will no doubt be formatted as a colorful children's book.
Control click header above to hear Stan Freberg's Christmas Dragnet.
Wally Wood's Bucky's Christmas Caper is becoming a Christmas blog tradition -- like It's a Wonderful Life and A Christmas Story on television. See Steve Thompson, Mr. Door Tree and Pete Doree.
Short-run Christmas strips were once popular with the syndicates. Notice the dates on the strips, and you can see that this ran in 1967 from December 5 to December 23. As Woody explained it to me, NEA promised he could continue to do these characters in a regular Bucky Ruckus comic strip -- on one condition. If the Christmas strip had a favorable reaction and was picked up by hundreds of newspapers, then it would be syndicated as a permanent feature. However, to gain that many papers in only three weeks was NEA's Catch 22. They knew and Wood knew that such was a feat was impossible.
However, as Eric Idle puts it, always look at the bright side of life. The line quality is fine because the strip exists in slick proof sheets. And there are more than 50 panels, so one day this will no doubt be formatted as a colorful children's book.
©Wallace Wood Estate
Labels: bucky ruckus, pete doree, stan freberg, steve thompson, wood, wood chips
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