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Terry Hooper-Scharf
Wally Wood was a brilliant artist ( especially with EC ) - he had a wicked sense of humour and was under rated. It's nice to see someone remembers. I hope we, too might one day be so good as to laughed at .... I doubt it for me... TTFN
ReplyDeleteIt is worth checking out the Wood wikipedia entry if you've no access to comic reference books: "For much of his adult life, Wood had chronic, unexplainable headaches. In the 1970s, following bouts with alcoholism, Wood had kidney failure. A stroke in 1978 caused a loss of vision in one eye. Faced with declining health and career prospects, he shot and killed himself in Los Angeles on November 2, 1981.[1][5] Toward the end of his life, an embittered Wood would say, according to one biography, "If I had it all to do over again, I'd cut off my hands." It has to be said that even the talented veterans with no "problems" were treated like crap. Don Heck was once in a discussion with other artists and told them "Do you think they give a ***** what us old farts think?"Reading histories of old American comic artists can be very depressing.
ReplyDeleteThat's all true, but the creation is the thing. Even in Japan, I've had people enjoy my comics, isn't that weird ? Different culture, different language, way different sense of humor....some appreciation. Well, life is weird. TTFN and good night. Zzzzzzxxz.....
ReplyDeleteWell there was a fella from Nihonbashi (Tokyo I think) who said if I could send some books over he could sell them but, as with others in Europe who have asked this, it was a case of wait a few months to see what could be sold at the price THEY decided while I footed the print and postal costs and then they would decide how much I MIGHT get from sales and asked to resupply at my own expense again! After the 1990s Japanese experience I really was not willing to throw money away! It's getting people to read the comics that is the problem.
ReplyDeleteThat's not the problem, that's the fun! Getting people to read comics - hell YES ! Financially, I get it.but, for my money, reading and experiencing is the thing. I'm tired. No real sleep for days - wa. I hate Trump. My job has become THAT . AGH. Give me comic books! TTFN.
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