Robert Plunkett UNITED STATES
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Wood Prelim for Mad

Location: Legends of Genre Art
Artist: Wallace Wood (All)

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Location: Legends of Genre Art
Title: Wood Prelim for Mad
Artist:  Wallace Wood (All)
Media Type: Pencil
Art Type: Other
For Sale Status: For Sale, please make offer or inquire
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Added to Site: 1/16/2004

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This is a preliminary sketch WW did for "Mad's 1960 Political Alphabet Book" that appeared in Mad #38, Oct. 1960. It shows his ideas for illustrating the letters O, P, S, W, and X. Compare these with the ones published:T

"O" changed from a shot of a realistic missile heading for the politician on a clear trajectory to a blunt-nosed one falling on his head like a safe.
"P" changed the loony into a bad version of Alfred E. Neuman.
"S" was switched entirely around and the child went from interrogating to grinning.
"W" changed the checkered dog with a cloth coat to a Nixon-faced pooch, the child from Dennis the Menace to a baby politico, the wife from a pretty one as the poem suggests to matronly with incongruous chorus girl legs.
"X" changed from illustrating the point of its poem of the politico voting for himself and getting almost no votes to a unrelated picture of transparent voter fraud.

This very preliminary with my scans of the corresponding panels was featured in
the book, "Wally's World: The Brillant Life and Tragic Death of Wally Wood, the World's 2nd Best Comic Book Artist" by Steve Starger, J. David Spurlock.

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