Leonard Deakyn (L. D.) Warren (editorial cartoonist and Wallace Allan (Wally) Wood, comic artist.
Leonard Deakyn “L.D.” Warren (December 27, 1906 Wilmington, Delaware – May 14, 1992) was an American editorial cartoonist. Warren graduated from Camden High School in Camden, New Jersey, where his family eventually moved.
Warren worked at the New Jersey Courier Post, before joining the Philadelphia Record in 1927. At the Record, Warren drew feature, editorial and sports cartoons. In the 1930s, he also worked on a comic strip featuring Penny Penguin, a character for the Gulf Oil Corporation and contributed to Gulf Funny Weekly.
After twenty years with the Philadelphia Record, Warren moved to the Cincinnati Enquirer in 1947. While working as the Enquirer’s editorial cartoonist, Warren’s work was also syndicated through the McNaught Syndicate (1951–1974).
In 1973, Warren officially retired from the Cincinnati Enquirer, but continued to draw a weekly cartoon to the newspaper. He was also able to recommend his replacement, cartoonist Jim Borgman.
The Cincinnati Enquirer presents a gallery of L. D. Warren cartoons for the newspaper from his first in 1947 to his last as staff cartoonist in 1973. Former Enquirer cartoonist L.D. Warren drew JFK, Nixon, MLK and more.
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Wallace Allan Wood (June 17, 1927 – November 2, 1981) was an American comic book writer, artist and independent publisher, widely known for his work on EC Comics’s titles such as Weird Science, Weird Fantasy, and MAD Magazine from its inception in 1952 until 1964, as well as for T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents, and work for Warren Publishing’s Creepy. He drew a few early issues of Marvel’s Daredevil and established the title character’s distinctive red costume. Wood created and owned the long-running characters Sally Forth and Cannon.
From 1968 to 1973 Wally Wood and his studio created the Sally Forth, Cannon, and Shattuck comic strips for Overseas Weekly. Recently John at World of Monsters posted the first Cannon story and the beginning of story two (for mature readers only).
It is the first strip of the second story that gets our attention.
Wood had a motto to keep him and his assistants from taking to long on any particular assignment – the low paying comic book industry required speed to make a weekly working wage. Wood assistant Larry Hama passed on the Wood watchword: “Never draw anything you can copy, never copy anything you can trace, never trace anything you can cut out and paste up.”
The third panel of the above strip illustrates Wally taking that action as he “borrows” the splash panel landscape from a Reed Crandall story that appeared in Creepy #7 (February , 1966):
Well, it appears he violated at least one of his tenets: he only swiped it, he didn’t trace it and he certainly didn’t copy and paste it. (Since he worked with Crandall, he may have even gotten permission.)