Wally Wood, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Wally Wood

American comic strip cartoonist and illustrator

Date of Birth: 17-Jun-1927

Place of Birth: Menahga, Minnesota, United States

Date of Death: 02-Nov-1981

Profession: comics artist, cartoonist, editor

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Wallace Allan Wood (June 17, 1927 – November 2, 1981) was an American comic book writer, artist and independent publisher, best known for his work on EC Comics's Mad and Marvel's Daredevil.
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's 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 inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 1992.