![]() ![]() When EC stopped publishing comic books in 1955 and transformed Mad into a magazine, he remained one of its senior artists until 1964. He also drew for EC's very successful Mad comic book, founded 1952, illustrating many of its fondly remembered parodies, such as the well-known "Superduperman". After briefly working for Avon, Wood returned to EC Comics to illustrate many of its most renowned sf stories, including adaptations of Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" ( Collier's) and "Mars Is Heaven" (Fall 1948 Planet Stories). After joining EC Comics in 1949, the pair initially handled romance comics before persuading publisher William M Gaines to launch two sf comics, Weird Fantasy and Weird Science. After military service, the largely self-trained Wood received some instruction at New York's Cartoonists and Illustrators School in 1948 and did some minor work for newspaper Comic strips before shifting to comic books one of his early collaborators was the young Harry Harrison, a fellow illustrator who later became the famed sf writer. ![]() Working name of American artist Wallace A Wood (1927-1981), sometimes credited as Wallace Wood or simply Wood. ![]()
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