Wally Wood EC Stories Artist’s Edition Now Available!
Thursday, Feb 23rd, 2012
IDW releases loving tribute to one of the finest comics artists ever
Few comics creators
have been lauded as the kind of iconoclast and innovator
Wally Wood was. So, what more fitting a tribute
than an a lovingly exacting, mega-sized Artist’s
Edition of his seminal work?
“Wally Wood is absolutely one of my all-time favorites,” said Artist’s Edition editor Scott Dunbier, “I love all these Artist’s Editions but this is the one I’ve been dying to have!”
As far as fan reaction to the book, Ain’t It Cool
News’ head honcho Harry Knowles tweeted “HOLY MARY
MOTHER OF GOD! Just got the IDW Wally Wood EC Stories ARTIST'S
EDITION... it's the greatest anything ever…”
Since their inception, IDW’s Artist’s Editions
have been intended as eye-popping, brain-frying, must-have books
for diehard comics fans; true artifacts and testaments to the
artistic greatness of their subjects. As is often the case, IDW has
upped the ante in order to pay proper tribute to the late, great
Wally Wood. This particular volume has been
kept to the high, precise standards of previous Artist’s
Editions, but due to the larger size of the original art, fans
will be treated to a 15” x 22” monolith of illustrative
achievement. Just like Wally Wood’s
legend, this book is just a little bigger than the rest.
What is an
Artist’s Edition? Artist’s Editions
are printed the same size as the original art. While appearing to
be in black & white, each page has been scanned in COLOR to
mimic as closely as possible the experience of viewing the actual
original art—for example, you are able to clearly see
paste-overs, blue pencils in the art, editorial notes, art
corrections. Each page is printed the same size as drawn, and the
paper selected is as close as possible to the original art
board.
Previous Artist’s Editions include DAVE
STEVENS’ THE ROCKETEER: ARTIST’S EDITION and WALTER
SIMONSON’S THE MIGHTY THOR: ARTIST’S EDITION JOHN
ROMITA’S THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN: ARTIST’S EDITION, and
WALLY WOOD’S EC STORIES: THE ARTIST’S EDITION.
The ROCKETEER ARTIST’S EDITION won two Eisner Awards last
year, for Best Archival Project and Best Design.
