Gil Kane (1926-2000) is considered of the best comic book artists
of the Silver Age and beyond, having won four awards from the
National Cartoonists Society--including Best Story Strip for Star
Hawks. During his long career, he is best known for his work on
Green Lantern and The Atom for DC Comics, and then a long stint at
Marvel, drawing the Amazing Spider-Man and hundreds of covers in
the 1970s.
Wally Wood (1927-1981) was born on June 17th, 1927, in Menahga, MN.
After briefly attending the Minneapolis School of Art, Wood moved
to New York, where he studied for a short time at the Cartoonists
and Illustrators School (later renamed The School of Visual
Arts).
Soon after arriving in New York, Wood began to find comics work
with several small publishers before arriving at Avon Comics and EC
Comics. At EC that he truly shone-in a lineup crammed with
heavyweights, Wood distinguished himself as one of the absolute
best. Wood, while still at EC, was one of the founding artists on
MAD comics, whom he continued to work for after it became MAD
magazine. In the late 1950s, Wood produced many science-fiction
covers and interiors for Galaxy magazine, illustrating such classic
authors as Isaac Asimov, Philip K. Dick, Frederick Pohl, and many
others.
In the 1960s, Wood enjoyed great demand, and worked for Marvel
Comics and Warren Publishing, and co-created The T.H.U.N.D.E.R.
Agents at Tower Comics. Additionally, he produced two weekly comic
strips, Cannon and Sally Forth, for Military News and Overseas
Weekly, as well as self-publishing the groundbreaking pro-zine,
Witzend.
Wood continued to produce work in the 1970s but towards the end of
the decade suffered from kidney failure and a stroke, the latter
leading to vision loss in one eye. On November 2nd, 1981, after
years of ill health, Wally Wood took his own life.
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