Mad (Magazine) Cartoonists: Sergio Aragones, Dave Berg, Al Jaffee, Wally Wood, Harvey Kurtzman, Don Martin, Russ Heath, Antonio Prohias

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 35. Chapters: Sergio Aragones, Dave Berg, Al Jaffee, Wally Wood, Harvey Kurtzman, Don Martin, Russ Heath, Antonio Prohias, Roger Price, Jay Lynch, John Severin, Basil Wolverton, Jack Davis, George Woodbridge, Sam Viviano, James Warhola, Mort Drucker, Bernard Krigstein, Duck Edwing, Tom Bunk, Hermann Mejia, Angelo Torres, Monte Wolverton, John Caldwell, Tom Richmond, Kevin Pope, Rick Tulka, Paul Coker. Excerpt: Wallace Allan Wood (June 17, 1927 - November 2, 1981) was an American comic book writer, artist and independent publisher, best known for his work in EC Comics and Mad. He was one of Mad's founding cartoonists in 1952. Although much of his early professional artwork is signed Wallace Wood, he became known as Wally Wood, a name he claimed to dislike. Within the comics community, he was also known as Woody, a name he sometimes used as a signature. In addition to Wood's hundreds of comic book pages, he illustrated for books and magazines while also working in a variety of other areas - advertising; packaging and product illustrations; gag cartoons; record album covers; posters; syndicated comic strips; and trading cards, including work on Topps' landmark Mars Attacks set. EC publisher William Gaines once stated, "Wally may have been our most troubled artist... I'm not suggesting any connection, but he may have been our most brilliant." He was the inaugural inductee into the comic book industry's Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1989, and was posthumously inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 1992. Wally Wood was born in Menahga, Minnesota, and he began reading and drawing comics at an early age. He was strongly influenced by the art styles of Alex Raymond's Flash Gordon, Milton Caniff's Terry and the Pirates, Hal Foster's Prince Valiant, Will Eisner's The Spirit and especially Roy Crane's Wash Tubbs. Recalling his...