Tatjana Wood

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Tatjana Wood , née Tatjana Weintraub (born before 1935 in Darmstadt ) is an American artist and colorist of comics .

Life

Tatjana Weintraub, sister of Karl Joachim Weintraub , was born in Darmstadt as the daughter of a Jewish-Russian father and a Christian-German mother. Her date of birth is not known. Like her brother, she attended the Eerde Quaker School from 1935 . It is unclear whether it was also hidden by a Dutch Christian family after the Nazi invasion. However, it can be considered certain that she too was able to enter the USA in 1948 with the support of the Quakers .

While Tatjana's brother continued his education at the University of Chicago , she stayed in New York and attended the "Traphagen School of Fashion" there. In 1949 Tatjana Weintraub met Wally Wood , whom she married in 1950. The marriage was divorced in 1969, but after Wally Woods suicide in 1981 he left all his financial fortune to his ex-wife, while the rest of his estate went to the Wally Wood Estate. Since 2014 there has been an apparently not yet resolved legal dispute between the subsequent rights holder of the "Wally Wood Estate" and Tatjan Wood, because a publisher sent her 150 to 200 original drawings by Wally Wood in 2005 due to the lack of another address, which the current rights holder now has for himself complained. These sheets are said to be worth between $ 2,000 and $ 25,000 per sheet. It is unclear whether the sheets could also have been those that Wally Wood could have given his former wife during his lifetime.

Tatjana Wood has not appeared artistically in recent years. After long years in the comic industry, she withdrew from it at the end of 2003.

Artistic creation

In the 1950s and 60s, Tatjana Wood worked, mostly unpaid, with her husband. One work she is said to have worked on at the time is the comic "Carl Akeley!", For which she made many animal drawings. In the Grand Comics Database only Wally Wood is mentioned as responsible for "Script, Pencils and Inks", and also for "Colors and Letters" others are responsible.

Tatjana Wood began working with DC Comics in 1969 and was the main colorist for the covers of their comics between 1973 and the mid-1980s. Wood also colored the interior parts of many comics, for example in Grant Morrison's Animal Man or in Camelot 3000 . The "DC Database" also lists: House of Secrets , Our Army At War , Tarzan and Brave and the Bold . The most notable works of hers are her collaboration on the aforementioned Animal Man and her collaboration on Len Wein's Swamp Thing .

Tatjana Wood has also emerged as a weaver and seamstress who created theatrical costumes and tapestries .

Awards

  • 1971 Shazam Award for Best Colorist.
  • 1974 Shazam Award for Best Colorist.
  • 1977 Best Colorist at the Academy of Comic Book Arts.

Works

Individual works by Tatjana Wood can be accessed via the following links:

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Tatjana Wood profile , Who's Who in American Comic Books, 1928–1999.
  2. ^ A Tough Teacher Whose Classes Are a Big Draw. The New York Times, May 27, 1990
  3. ↑ According to the article already quoted in Who's Who in American Comic , it is said to have come to the USA in 1947.
  4. ↑ This school - also known as the "Traphagen School of Design" - was closed in the 1990s. The Traphagen Collection . In the English WIKIPEDIA you can find many alumni of the school via the category “Traphagen School of Fashion alumni”, but there is no article about the school itself either.
  5. ^ Wally Wood estate sues Tatjana Wood over art. 10.31.2014
  6. ↑ a b The Comics Reporter, October 30, 2014
  7. ↑ Legal matters: The Wallace Wood Estate suing Tatjana Wood for Wally Wood artwork, 10/30/2014
  8. ↑ a b Short biography of Tatjana Wood
  9. ^ Bhob Stewart with Jim Vadeboncouer, Jr .: The Wallace Wood Checklist , TwoMorrows Publishing, Raleigh (NC), 2003.
  10. ↑ Carl Akeley! in the Grand Comics Database
  11. ^ Paul Levitz: 75 Years of DC Comics. The Art of Modern Mythmaking , Taschen America, 2010, ISBN = 978-3-8365-1981-6, p. 524. "Virtually all DC covers from 1973 through the end of the Bronze Age were colored by Tatjana Wood."
  12. ↑ Tatjana Wood in the "DC Database"
  13. ↑ Winners of the Shazam Award
personal data
SURNAME Wood, Tatiana
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weintraub, Tatjana (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American artist and comics colorist
DATE OF BIRTH before 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Darmstadt