Al Fresco Art Club, Jan 10, 2021: Learn from a Comics Idol named Wally Wood

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22 Panels That Always Work, or some interesting ways to get some variety into these boring panels where some dumb writer has a bunch of lame characters sitting around and talking for page after page

Today’s art club challenge was to learn from a master. My choice of master was Wally Wood, one of the early Mad Magazine artists. The legend is that he compiled a tip sheet for his pencilers so that they would work more efficiently. I made my versions of the first six infallible panels.

Wally was paid by the page; the faster he worked, the more money made. He motto was:

Never draw anything you can copy, never copy anything you can trace, never trace anything you can cut out and paste up.

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