Simply astonishing !! 4 photos of art that just mesmerized me !!

[Senormac]

The Jordan Schnitzer museum, here on the University of Oregon campus, had an exhibit of EC comic original art, and, oh .... it was amazing !! There were at least 100 pages of original EC art on display by the likes of Wood, Feldstein, Kurtzman, Orlando, Ingalls, Wolverton, Frazetta, Williamson etc.... on display....... and I was drooling !! DROOLING !! My party left me behind because I found myself staring intensely and with my face only a few inches away from the artwork, for such long periods of time, that they got bored with my seemingly statuesque posture and went on to the next works. I however could have stared at the Wally Wood work almost indefinitely. I have always loved Woods work, especially in MAD...... but to see his pen work up close and in person was just astonishing !! This OA cover was pretty cool too

 

[Senormac]

 

It was all under glass, of course, but dang....... I was THAT FREAKIN CLOSE !!!

[Senormac]

 

To think that someone..... somewhere on the planet actually owns these......just shook me...... I mean, there is only one of them.... ONE !!

 

And by their graciousness....... I was able to stare at it from 6 inches away, for as long as I wanted

[batman_fan]

I think it is the HA guy

[Senormac]

 

I looked at this one longer than any of the others. It was just amazing !! AMAZING !! There was not 1/4 of an inch of space where Woods pen did not place some kind of black line

 

Sorry for all the pics of me..... but I needed some kind of contrast for size, and my wife was helpful to take the pics for me

[oakman29]

Amazing Mike. I would be staring too.

[lizards2]

[JollyComics]

Doing the art heist soon?

[Azkaban]

Wood's is one of my favorites also

[CheeseFrog]

Weird Science 20 just made my head explode. Awesome to get to see that work in person...

[Unca Ben]

Completely awesome!

Thanks for posting!

[mtlevy]

Cool T-Shirt!

[fett]

The Jordan Schnitzer museum, here on the University of Oregon campus, had an exhibit of EC comic original art, and, oh .... it was amazing !! There were at least 100 pages of original EC art on display by the likes of Wood, Feldstein, Kurtzman, Orlando, Ingalls, Wolverton, Frazetta, Williamson etc.... on display....... and I was drooling !! DROOLING !! My party left me behind because I found myself staring intensely and with my face only a few inches away from the artwork, for such long periods of time, that they got bored with my seemingly statuesque posture and went on to the next works. I however could have stared at the Wally Wood work almost indefinitely. I have always loved Woods work, especially in MAD...... but to see his pen work up close and in person was just astonishing !! This OA cover was pretty cool too

 

 

Thanks for sharing the pics. I had a similar experience at the Dallas Fantasy Fair about 14 years ago. I had the pleasure of getting that close to some Frazetta OA and paintings, as well as a great collection of Russ Heath OA. I wanted to stay all day looking at the amazing detail on their works of art. Masters indeed!!

[Ken Aldred]

As a lifelong EC fan I would’ve loved to have gone to that exhibition. You’re very lucky.

 

One publisher with most of the A-list comic artists of the 1950s, some of the most gifted artists in the entire history of the medium. Simply incredible level of craftsmanship. Fact, not hyperbole.

[DavidTheDavid]

Ooh, that would have been fun.

[Hekla]

Not cheap, but the IDW artist editions are a great way to see the OA for quite a few EC stories. The art is published at the original size as drawn, so they are really large. The Wally Wood is my favorite

 

IDW publishing artist edition

[Senormac]

Cool T-Shirt!

 

Thx

[stippy52]

Very Cool!

Thanks for sharing

[aardvark88]

I believe this Eugene, OR University EC art show is closing today Sunday but there are a couple of outstanding 1 hr Youtube posted videos of detailed analysis of the EC Wood, Kamen, etc. original artwork and MAD mag movement here:

 

https://www.youtube.com/user/JSchnitzMOA

 

I did not realize the Frazetta Weird Science #29 OA cover was loaned for the exhibit else I would have driven down for sure even though the Wood alone would have been worth it.

[greggy]

I believe this Eugene, OR University EC art show is closing today Sunday but there are a couple of outstanding 1 hr Youtube posted videos of detailed analysis of the EC Wood, Kamen, etc. original artwork and MAD mag movement here:

 

https://www.youtube.com/user/JSchnitzMOA

 

I did not realize the Frazetta Weird Science #29 OA cover was loaned for the exhibit else I would have driven down for sure even though the Wood alone would have been worth it.

You had always planned to go down until you got caught smuggling comics into the US during Emerald City.

 

Plus, you always knew about the Weird Science Fantasy 29 cover so WTF?