Tatjana Wood, coloriste indissociable de DC (Orion) et Vertigo (Swamp Thing, Animal man, Sebastian O, Egypt, etc…), est décédée quelques jours avant son centième anniversaire:
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Paul Levitz
We lost a legend. Tatjana Wood has passed away, 99 years old, after a long struggle with a fading mem> ory. One of the first true artists to work as a colorist in American comics, she was able to make the extremely limited palatte available for newsprint comics sing and create moods. And when better tools were available to her, she could make it positively operatic. Before computer color. and back when the technique of ‹ blue line color › was primarily used for a few high-end newspaper strips, advertising and other specialties, she mastered it to apply it to THE WIZARD KING, an early graphic novel by her former husband, Wally Wood. The result was a treatment of his already legendary artwork as it had never been seen before.
Tatjana began providing color guides for DC comics in the late 1960s, after the company shifted from an in house color department to freelancers. Gravel voiced from her long cigarette habit, she’d spend time discussing each assignment with its editor, and finding a distinctive approach that met their goals. Given the less-than-modest amount paid for each page’s color guides in the field at the time, that was an unusual level of artistic dedication, and the results showed that she carried that through in the work. She graduated in 1973 to become the regular cover artist for the whole line, probably only the third person (and the last) to be given that responsibility, and stayed in that role for well over a decade.
Tatjana was recognized by her peers, winning the 1975 Best Colorist Shazam Award from the short-lived Academy of Comic Book Arts, and won broader recognition in the field becoming an inductee to the Eisner Hall of Fame…the first colorist to earn that honor who was not also a cartoonist.
If there’s an afterlife, I think we can fairly anticipate even more vivid sunset skies, 'cause the scenery crew just added a truly splendid talent.
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Passionnant.
Merci.
Jim
Bah merde
Pas mieux.
Oh c’est moche.
Ça fait toujours un drôle d’effet quand les personnes sont jeunes… C’est pire quand elles sont plus jeunes que soi-même !
On a parlé de lui il n’y a pas longtemps, à propos de Lupin III, tiens…
Condoléances à la famille.
Tori.