Pipsqueak

Pipsqueak
Author: Brian M. Wiprud
Publisher: Dell
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2004
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0440241871

New York City taxidermy collectory Garth Carson and his girlfriend, Angie, launch a rollicking, suspenseful quest to find Pipsqueak the Nutty Nut, a stuffed-squirrel puppet of a popular 1950s children's TV show, making their way through a bizarre world of jive cult members, club-goers, and murder to find the stolen squirrel. Reprint.

The Life and Legend of Wallace Wood

The Life and Legend of Wallace Wood
Author: Various
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2018-02-07
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1683960688

Bursting with a cornucopia of gorgeous artwork and photos, this second of two volumes of the Eisner Award–nominated The Life and Legend of Wallace Wood also features the vivid personal recollections of the friends, colleagues, and assistants who knew him best. The Life and Legend of Wallace Wood Volume 2 completes this revealing, intimate portrait of the brilliant but troubled maverick comics creator (EC Comics, Mad, Daredevil, T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents, witzend, The Justice Society of America, The Wizard King). Contributors include Larry Hama, John Workman, Trina Robbins, Paul Krassner, Flo Steinberg, Tom Sutton, Bill Pearson, and Paul Levitz. Professor Ben Saunders reveals the meticulous handcrafted wizardry that made Wood’s most famous story, “My World” possible. A special tribute gallery includes artwork by Robert Crumb, Daniel Clowes, Dave Sim, Drew Friedman, and others. Introduction by Eisner Award–winning writer/artist Ed Piskor.

Best of witzend

Best of witzend
Author: Wallace Wood
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2018-08-08
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1683961153

Cartoonist Wallace Wood created and published his own magazine ― witzend. Witzend immediately became a venue for personal work, without regard to commercial constraints and with contributors like Frank Frazetta, Al Williamson, Gray Morrow, and Reed Crandall. (And that was just the first issue!) In later issues, Steve Ditko, Art Spiegelman, Vaughn Bodé, Jim Steranko, Jeffrey Catherine Jones, Howard Chaykin, Bernie Wrightson ― and dozens more ― joined in.

The Life and Legend of Wallace Wood

The Life and Legend of Wallace Wood
Author: Bhob Stewart
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2016-11-30
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1606998153

Who was Wallace Wood? The maddest artist of Mad magazine? The man behind Marvel’s Daredevil?The Life and Legend is an incisive look back at the life and career of one of the greatest and most mythic figures of cartooning. Edited over the course of thirty years by former Wood assistant Bhob Stewart, The Life and Legend is a biographical portrait, generously illustrated with Wood’s gorgeous art as well as little-seen personal photos and childhood ephemera. Also: remembrances by Wood’s friends, colleagues, assistants, and loved ones. This collective biographical and critical portrait explores the humorous spirit, dark detours, and psychological twists of a gifted maverick in American pop culture.

witzend

witzend
Author: various
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
Total Pages: 643
Release: 2014-07-08
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1606997440

When the formulaic constraints, censorious nature, and onerous lack of creator’s rights in mainstream comics got to be too much for the brilliant cartoonist Wallace Wood, he struck out on his own with the self-published witzend. It became a haven for Wood and his fellow professional cartoonist friends where they could produce the kind of personal work that they wanted to do, without regard to commercial demands ― and with friends like Frank Frazetta, Al Williamson, Reed Crandall, Ralph Reese, Archie Goodwin, Angelo Torres, Steve Ditko, Harvey Kurtzman, Bill Elder, Art Spiegelman, Don Martin, Vaughn Bodé, Jim Steranko, Jeff Jones, Howard Chaykin, Trina Robbins, Bernie Wrightson, and literally dozens more, it was bound to be a great ride! Now, Fantagraphics presents the complete run of witzend!

Complete Wally Wood Lunar Tunes

Complete Wally Wood Lunar Tunes
Author: Wallace Wood
Publisher: Woodwork, Wally Wood Classics
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2005-09-15
Genre: Fantasy comic books, strips, etc
ISBN: 9781887591867

Combination of mad, weird science with minor nudity written and drawn by Wally Wood and published posthumously in 2005.